--- Martin van den Bemt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > IANAL, so not going to give you advise on this
Yes, I can't believe I missed something so elementary as a disclaimer that I don't expect anyone on this mailing list to BE a lawyer and hereby avow my acknowledgement that no advice I receive in the context of this thread constitutes any form of liability on the part of the advisor regarding the correctness/completeness of the advice. > scenario :) I tend to prevent this scenario, by > starting an "open source" for such things. Most > employers will say yes to this, especially if you > invest a lot of your own time in creating this :) Too late now, in this specific scenario. :) Actually they have expressed their willingness to allow me to open-source a couple of my codebases, but as I'm turning in my resignation today and it hasn't happened yet I assume they won't care about doing that anymore. But I plan to mention it anyway in case they like to think of it as free support for some of the code I wrote while there. > I started doing it like this, since at a certain > point in time, I was promised I could use that code > base in any way I wanted and couldn't get permission > when leaving that company. > (my project xulux is an example of this, although > sadly enough I lack the time to work on it) > > Just some thoughts ;) Thanks, Martin! -Matt > > Mvgr, > Martin > > Matt Benson wrote: > > 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] > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Food fight? Enjoy some healthy debate in the Yahoo! Answers Food & Drink Q&A. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=396545367 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
