[Wolves] GPL, IP and patents..

[Lee Parkes]

On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 04:17:08PM +0000, Old Dan wrote:
> >
> How exactly have they worded this?  It does sound a bit like the person 
> who drafted this has something shoved up his/her own a$$.  Or needs to.

I'm not sure who wrote it, but I'm sure they don't understand the principles
over free software and the GPL..

> copyright or other anyway and this is probably just seen by them as an 
> added protection.

If it was derivative of company work then I'd say fair enough. However, it 
depends on how general they want to be. For example, if I used iptables to
solve a work problem and then used a similar idea to do something in my own 
time then am I breaking the T&C of my contract?

> Which software is it which is being worked on, is it /all/ based on 
> GPLed stuff?

Linux for a start off, and anything that runs atop of Linux, e.g. PHP, MySQL,
all of the normal networking tools and apps that are useful.

Lee

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