Re: [dev] [PATCH] Add tab-completion file-name expansion.

From: Anselm R Garbe <garbeam_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2014 21:39:36 +0200

On 7 July 2014 21:24, Maxime Coste <frrrwww_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 03:53:09PM +0200, FRIGN wrote:
>> On Mon, 07 Jul 2014 15:37:05 +0200
>> Michal Nazarewicz <mina86_AT_mina86.com> wrote:
>>
>> > I'm sorry, but no I'm not. The copyright is owned by Google. If you
>> > cannot accept corporate copyright there's no point in me trying to get
>> > the patch to be technically acceptable.
>>
>> Well, we don't accept corporate copyright. End of story.
>
> Seems to me you probably have tons of corporate copyright without knowing it,
> most software engineer contract specify that any code written by the employee
> *including* non working hours and *including* projects not linked with the
> companies is under company's copyright.

IMHO I only came across such legal terms in a contract proposal by
some US company, a couple of years ago.
Apart from US companies I can't confirm that such contracts are common
practice, particularly not under German law.

Source code that is pretty much unrelated to your typical day job that
is developed during non working hours, is typically not copyright of
your employer as long as this is not stated explicitely -- and I
wouldn't sign such a contract. Otherwise the tomatos that you harvest
in the summer in your garden might also become property of your
employer ;)

Best regards,
Anselm
Received on Mon Jul 07 2014 - 21:39:36 CEST