> My understanding is that a contractor "must" have the option of doing > non-client work. If that's true, if you found an SDK bug while working for a > client, would you "stop the clock", fix the bug, then "start the clock" > again? That way the fix would be owned by you. If the fix is owned by the > client, the client may need to give permission for the fix to be contributed > to Apache.
We do two things. Our starting point is: if we are working with an open source framework/tool/project and we find a bug and fix it, it's going to be donated and we try to clarify that ownership in the contract from the beginning. For clients that refuse that, we 'stop the clock' so that we can fix and donate. Mike
