[Gllug] doing GPL/opensource work while working?

[David Damerell]

On Thursday, 4 Oct 2001, Alex Hudson wrote:
>On Thursday 04 October 2001 15:30, you wrote:
>>>slashdot/advogato sometime last year.. it was about "when you are
>>>involved in an open-source project, but at the same time your employer
>>>wants to be part of this project!"
>>Make sure it is already under a strong license such as the GPL (and
>>copyright someone other than you); then the _only_ way you can
>>co-operate is to produce stuff under the GPL.
>Not quite. As an employee, you have no say what license code you produce is 
>under - this isn't in your contract, this is the law. Now, if your employer 
>wishes you to do work on a project, they have two options. The first is to 
>allow you to comply with the license, in which case the work you do may be 
>redistributed. Or they don't, in which case it can't. The fact that they 
>allow you to co-operate does not give you authorship rights to your code.

That's what I said.

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David Damerell <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> flcl?

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