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

From: Anselm R Garbe <garbeam_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2014 21:49:58 +0200

On 7 July 2014 21:46, FRIGN <dev_AT_frign.de> wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Jul 2014 21:39:36 +0200
> Anselm R Garbe <garbeam_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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 ;)
>
> That's exactly what I wanted to state. Nothing to add here.
>
> Only because America is a police state in regard to contracts, you
> can't apply those internal contracts to international copyright law. In
> case an employee wrongfully doesn't add his company's name to a
> license, it won't magically imply the company's copyright. What it
> would imply is the fact that the company has the right to file a
> lawsuit and tell the employee to add the company-name to the license.
> However, by that time, we would have reacted and removed all portions
> of the contributed code from the project, effectively removing all
> fangs a company can have on a source-code.
>
> Regarding corporate-licenses in general, I was a bit unclear about the
> terms: There's no issue with small firms or corporations contributing
> to the suckless-cause, but very much when it comes to big international
> ones like Google.
> In my opinion, Google is at the same level as Microsoft when it comes
> to software-freedom.

Well we might accept Google contributions (with Google Inc's copyright
notice) if the contributor proves the contribution with a written and
signed consent by some Google board member at the very least.
Otherwise it would always remain an individual contribution (I
wouldn't mind the _AT_google.com email address though).

For smaller company-contributions things might be a lot easier of course ;)

Best regards,
Anselm
Received on Mon Jul 07 2014 - 21:49:58 CEST