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On 12/11/2008 12:10 PM, David Rosenstrauch wrote: > I'm looking at one of those employment contracts that are increasingly > popular these days, where the employer claims ownership of any > "inventions" you create. I participate in a lot of open source > projects, though, and would like to add some wording to the contract to= > make sure that my ability to work on open source is protected by doing > things like exempting my open source work from employer ownership > (assuming of course that I don't use any of their proprietary code, > don't work on something that competes with one of their products, etc.)= > > Anyone know if there's any standard legalese floating around the FOSS > community that I could use as a starting point for this? (My lawyer's > reasonably tech-savvy, but not totally up on FOSS issues, so I'd like t= o > give him a something to start from.) I'm sure I can't be the only one > who's needed something like this. > =20 Digital used to have clauses like that, but many employees were involved = with outside projects, including FOSS, such as X. The basic issue is=20 that get something in writing that gives you permission to do this.=20 --=20 Jerry Feldman <gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org> Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846
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