However, nondisclosure agreements may also contain clauses that will protect the person receiving the information so that if they lawfully obtained the information through other sources they would not be obligated to keep the information secret.
但是，保密协议也可能包含保护接收信息的人的条款，以便如果他们通过其他渠道合法获取信息，他们就没有义务将信息保密。