2010-11-04 8:11, Darren Reed wrote:
Oracle has no problems with me doing it but would own all of the intellectual property (i.e copyright) for all of the work that I would do. *I* have a problem with that given that I would be doing it on my time and it would be me handing out freebies to a very wealthy man/company.
And, if that's not a secret, can you shed some light on such question as how did it work with Sun? They did not claim any copyright on *your* work, and simply forked an ipfilter (like anyone else can) to which they might have such rights?
And on the opposite, can't you maintain IPFilter as a part of your paid job - albeit IP (to these patches) would now belong to Oracle? Or would that possibly threaten the open-source project? They can't change the license to code that existed and was in the open before you even worked for Sun, right?
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