Grande nouvelle, la semaine passée, sous la pression des développeurs, on pouvait trouver ce message lorsque l’on accédait à son compte développeur pour iPhone:

“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.”

Apple a (enfin!) abandonné sa close de non divulgation concernant le kit de développement de l’iPhone.

Il sera enfin possible d’échanger des informations techniques avec la communauté sans s’attirer les foudres de Cupertino et les éditeurs pourront enfin publier les livres sur l’iPhone dont certains étaient prêts depuis un moment, comme chez Pragmatic Programmers, mais qu’ils ne pouvaient pas mettre à disposition pour des questions légales.

Youpi!