--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Doug McCune" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What if you spin it as a PR opportunity for the company, and ask to be able > to use the code you write as the basis for explanatory tutorials, without > giving away any company-specific trade secrets, and give credit to the > company for contributing the code? Could be a win-win for everyone involved. > You get to blaze the path for other eLearning developers, the client company > gets to be seen as open and contributing back to the community, they get > their name out in the blogopshere a bit with a positive spin. > > But get that in writing, otherwise I'd say you'll have to do the project, > then write whatever tutorials you want to do from scratch. Depends on the > company of course and how willing they'd be to do something like that, most > large companies I've dealt with are simply too beuracratic to ever deviate > from the standard agreements the lawyers drafted up. It often doesn't matter > what your argument is, the lawyers wrote an agreement and that's the only > one they'll ever get you to sign.
My fear is that if I were to sign the agreement as is even if I write tutorials from scratch the techniques might be inspired by things I did for them and they might decide to sue me. That could be a problem, as it is a big company ;-). But it looks like they're willing to negotiate on this, and so I think we're ok. -Amy
