First, my apologies for the cryptic subject line. I am woefully ignorant of the relevant legal jargon.
Next, note that this email is NOT related to my various twitchings regarding bringing the Morph project to Apache. Moving on... I should qualify that I am a US citizen, so the relevant IP laws would apply AFAIK. Now let's say I write a Java library at work, but it's something that is (a) useful and (b) fairly unique, and I think it would make a nice commons component. Time passes, I change jobs, and based--no bullshit--entirely on my recollection of the functionality I had implemented before, I re-implement something extremely similar in the commons sandbox for eventual consideration for the commons proper. I've heard various things to the effect that you can't be held responsible for what you remember (unless you're Ben Affleck in Paycheck); can anyone comment on experience with this type of question wrt the ASF? What does it take to prove that I in no way referred to the original code beyond what remained in my head? The resulting code would probably be similar though not identical to the original, but the functionality would be nearly identical unless I totally freaked out in some way. fwiw, I've subscribed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] in case having done so in the past would have made me a better-informed citizen to begin with. :| -Matt ____________________________________________________________________________________ Sucker-punch spam with award-winning protection. Try the free Yahoo! Mail Beta. http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailbeta/features_spam.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
