In worse case release this software trough your family member and indicate yourself as developer with nickname and so you should escape your employer's seizure of copyright. -- Paulius Galubickas, Advokatas +370 616 13406 p.galubic...@vialex.lt Saturday, 14 January 2017, 01:31am +02:00 from amunizp a75...@alumni.tecnun.es :
> >>I'm writing with a somewhat specific question. I'm a non-developing >>employee of a Missouri software company. In my spare time, I do >>develop, >>though, and am about to release a program of substantial size as free >>software. I'm concerned about my employer's finding out about this and >>using it to gain "ownership" over the program, seeing as how I wrote it >>while under their employ. Is there anything I can do to retain my >>copyright so that I can release it as free software, or does my >>employer >>have legal claim over my program? >> > >You need help from software freedom conservancy. The lawyers. I just listened >to their podcast: 'free as in freedom' refering to the contract you sign on >joining mentioned in other responses. > >Free as in Freedom: 0x5E: Conservancy's ContractPatch Initiative >http://faif.us/cast/2016/nov/01/0x5E/ > >There are links there to the audio oggcast and to the blog posts which might >be worth a read. > >https://sfconservancy.org/blog/?tag=ContractPatch > >It might be worth joining their mailing list as well. > >Good luck. > > > > >-- -- >Andres (he/him/his) >Ham United Group >Richmond Makerlabs >
