Apple Acaba com o NDA no iPhone

Parece mentira, mas é mesmo verdade.

Depois das inúmeras críticas que comparavam (e justamente) a Apple a uma ditadura que proíbia todos os interessados em fazer programas para o iPhone na sua App Store de divulgarem fosse o que fosse - incluindo as reclamações que quisessem fazer caso se sentissem injustiçados; eis que a Apple surpreende tudo e todos ao acabar definitivamente com o NDA que amordaçava os developers.

O anúncio na íntegra:

We have decided to drop the non-disclosure agreement (NDA) for released iPhone software.


We put the NDA in place because the iPhone OS includes many Apple inventions and innovations that we would like to protect, so that others don’t steal our work. It has happened before. While we have filed for hundreds of patents on iPhone technology, the NDA added yet another level of protection. We put it in place as one more way to help protect the iPhone from being ripped off by others.


However, the NDA has created too much of a burden on developers, authors and others interested in helping further the iPhone’s success, so we are dropping it for released software. Developers will receive a new agreement without an NDA covering released software within a week or so. Please note that unreleased software and features will remain under NDA until they are released.


Thanks to everyone who provided us constructive feedback on this matter.

Finalmente poder-se-á partilhar informação sobre programação para o iPhone.

[Apple]