--- Dain Sundstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andy, > > Do you own your own work anymore? >
This is actually a key issue that everyone working on this type of projejct should really be aware of. If you are a permanent employee of a company in the USofA which produces copyrightable material (such as software) --unless you have a contract to the contrary -- that company owns the copyright to the work you do. Not just the work you do on company time & equipment, but often even the work you do from home on your spare time. IANAL, and my understanding is that the degree to which the latter is the case MAY depend on how similar the work you've done on your own time & equipment is to the work you get paid to do, but since that's up to a judge's discretion -- and case law, I guess -- it would be insane for someone running an Open Source project to knowingly allow questionable code into their base as, LGPL, GPL or Bob's License, license issues don't help you if some other entity can claim to own the copyright. This is why the FSF asks people to formally assign the copyright to free software under the GNU project to them. If Andy really does work for a company, as a regular employee, who produces software similar to JBoss, removing his code is the right thing to do even if it's technically superior to every other bit of code in the codebase and he's the sweetest human being that ever lived, to protect the right of all of the rest of us to use this awesome software. Dave Neuer __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Jboss-development mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-development
