One of my sons was hired by Google last year after spending the past several years working on various open-source projects, it took 2 days of back-and-forth with Google's legal department before he was satisfied with the restrictions in their offer. -- Mike Nolan
On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 4:46 PM, Jan de Visser <j...@de-visser.net> wrote: > On March 12, 2015 06:43:40 AM Gavin Flower wrote: > > Bill cannot comment, but it might be along the lines of assigning all > > intellectual property rights, or something of that ilk. In that case, it > > might give the company ownership of stuff he may have contributed (or > > intends to contribute) to PostgreSQL in some way – which could lead to > > legal complications affecting PostgreSQL adversely, which would be > > expensive and an unnecessary distraction. > > I used to work for a company that did exactly that - you had to sign a > contract that claimed copyright of all your work, even work done outside of > work hours, to the company. They did however tell you beforehand that if > you > were an established contributor to an open-source project they could make > exceptions for that, but you had to go through legal. > > But the upshot was that if you wrote an iPhone app in 15 minutes, the > company > would own that, technically. > > > -- > Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general >
