Re: [silk] Employee-Employee agreement for open source activity

Where is all this happening,by the way? If this is all in India, I think you are over-engineering this by entering into a specific agreement (unless the employment contract specifically lays down a procedure for such consent, or unless there is a real and practical risk of litigation related to own

Re: [silk] Employee-Employee agreement for open source activity

> The contract states that approval needs to be obtained on a case by > case basis. The concern seems to be less about the IP issues and more > about potential conflict of interest and misuse of company time and > resources. > > -- b It's not quite my specialty (it used to be once upon a time

Re: [silk] Employee-Employee agreement for open source activity

#include On Wed Jun 04 2014 at 1:55:01 PM, Biju Chacko wrote: > On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 1:25 PM, Sudhakar Chandra wrote: > > 4. Would the employee use any of the employer's resources (computers, > > bandwidth, electricity, office space, email address, hosting space, etc.) > > in developing the

Re: [silk] Employee-Employee agreement for open source activity

On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 1:20 PM, harry wrote: > Your colleague must have an employment contract which has a clause > indicating all work done for the organization is "work for hire etc" - and > that covers work done related to the office. If this states that the > company owns rights to code writt

Re: [silk] Employee-Employee agreement for open source activity

On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 1:15 PM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote: > On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 1:08 PM, Biju Chacko wrote: >> A colleague wants to start an open source project and wanted to make >> sure our employer is ok with it. > > What does the phrase "is ok with it" mean in this context? You can d

Re: [silk] Employee-Employee agreement for open source activity

On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 1:25 PM, Sudhakar Chandra wrote: > I don't have a template or resources I can point to. But some things both > employer and employee should consider before embarking on this: > > 1. Is this a brand new, from the ground up project or the open sourcing of > something the compa

[silk] Employee-Employee agreement for open source activity

I don't have a template or resources I can point to. But some things both employer and employee should consider before embarking on this: 1. Is this a brand new, from the ground up project or the open sourcing of something the company had that was previously closed? The former is marginally less c

Re: [silk] Employee-Employee agreement for open source activity

Your colleague must have an employment contract which has a clause indicating all work done for the organization is "work for hire etc" - and that covers work done related to the office. If this states that the company owns rights to code written during work timings -and while pursuing a task assi

Re: [silk] Employee-Employee agreement for open source activity

On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 1:08 PM, Biju Chacko wrote: > A colleague wants to start an open source project and wanted to make > sure our employer is ok with it. What does the phrase "is ok with it" mean in this context? -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay

[silk] Employee-Employee agreement for open source activity

Hi, A colleague wants to start an open source project and wanted to make sure our employer is ok with it. I was wondering if anyone here could point me to some templates or other resources for this kind of agreement. A quick google didn't get me anything useful. -- b