On Friday 11 February 2005 04:11 pm, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC writes: > > Many of the people that work > > on it are paid to work on it by their employers, who are using it > > commercially. > > That would mean that their employers hold a copyright in the FreeBSD > code written by their employees; this is a classic implicit > work-for-hire arrangement. Have these people signed an agreement with > their employers that waives the work-for-hire copyright interest?
That's an assumption. We could as easily assume that the employers: 1. contribute the employees' work back to the project under a free license as to benefit from improvements that might be made by the FreeBSD Project; and 2. keep secret stuff out of the FreeBSD Project so that it stays secret; and 3. make policies regarding points #1 and #2 very clear to the developer at the beginning of the employment relationship. We can assume this or that until my keyboard runs out of monitor ink; but there's been enough cynicism for one week. Happy Friday, Andrew Gould _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
