Can I keep secret that Elphel cameras are used in our products?
Some companies consider it to be their advantage that they use Elphel cameras inside their products and do not want their competitors to know that. Is it possible? In most cases the answer is “no”. The only case where it is legal is when you use our (or derived from our) product exclusively in-house without any distribution or sales to others – same as with Free Software. As soon as you start to provide such product to your customers you have an obligation to provide the complete source code to them and can not limit their freedom to distribute the code (and so the fact that the cameras hardware and significant portion of the software and FPGA code are designed at Elphel) by any kind of non-disclosure (or similar) agreements.
