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
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
On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 1:08 PM, Biju Chacko biju.cha...@gmail.com 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
https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan
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
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
On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 1:25 PM, Sudhakar Chandra tha...@gmail.com 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
On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 1:15 PM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
sankarshan.mukhopadh...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 1:08 PM, Biju Chacko biju.cha...@gmail.com 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
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),
