> What is the difference between 1) a (non-employee) programmer who develops
> modifications to GPL code under an NDA (which seems to be ok), 2) a company
> employee who receives modified GPL code but may not disclose the
> modifications to anyone outside the company (which seems also to be ok),
> and 3) a client of the company who receives modified GPL code under an NDA
> that says that he may not disclose the modifications to anyone (which seems
> not to be ok)?

1) and 2) are legally operating as part of the company, 3) is not.

I think that for case 2), the external programmer could not legally 
provide the modified code to his own company, not even to himself 
working for his own company.

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