On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 03:26:44PM -0500, Bob Tanner wrote: > If a client requires you to sign a NDA and that agreement says they own > "everything" about the project. Including all design, specifications, page > layout and -source code- how does the GPL play into this? > > If I want to use the FSF GNU getopt, which is GPL'd, can I use that in this > project? IANAL B IMHO it's work for hire (it's not that your company builds something and offers it for sale) so you can use GPL code. If your client then distributes the code he has to obey the GPL and offer the source to what is linked against GPL code. If the code is not distributed than nothing happens.