So penalties are somewhere between not worth the paper its written on and bankrupting your company,
It specifically says
"Recipient shall only use the Confidential Information to evaluate and comment upon certain Confidential Information so as to produce a reference design of a larger system that incorporates components from both Discloser and Recipient. "
I cannot see how this can exclude open sourcing if you develop an independant design from the information so long as you dont use their software directly or reprint anything technical, the exceptions clause is
"Confidential Information shall not include information which:
1) is already known to Recipient at the time of its receipt from Discloser as reasonably evidenced by its written
records; or
2) is or becomes publicly available without breach of this Agreement by Recipient; or
3) is made available to a third party by Discloser without restriction on disclosure; or
4) is rightfully received by Recipient from a third party without restriction and without breach of this Agreement;
or
5) is independently developed by Recipient without having any access to Discloser's information as reasonably
evidenced by its written records contemporaneous with such development. "
Its also time limited so fairly happy its not there to shaft me in any way..
Anyway their secrets are safe with me.