On 11/9/16, 9:52 AM, "Rui Cruz" <info.ruic...@gmail.com> wrote:
>Hi Alex, > >My contract is a simple general contract (like any other employee here >being a developer or not). This is not a "software" company, and all >developments made are for own company use / company customers use. So no >legal problems here. And also there is no problem for the company to sign >the ccla, my question is: If the company signs the agreement saying that >"authorize" me to donate, makes them the "owner" of the code? this is >really messy! :\ but if it's required I'll ask to sign. AIUI, at the moment when you commit a change to a file, that change is owned by you or the company depending on existing contracts and default rules for where you live and work. Signing the CCLA would not assign any code owned by you to the company. And if the company does not own any of the lines of code, then a CCLA is not needed. So really, it comes down to what agreement was in place when code was written. It might be important if you started this library before you started working for this company. And it might depend on whether the company would want to claim ownership for work on libraries that are not specific to their line of business. Adobe's agreement has some language about "related to Adobe's business objectives". Because Adobe has such a broad software portfolio, that's why just about everything I write is owned by Adobe. Although one could argue that if I wrote non-Flex code for a TV remote control, that Adobe might not care. Another way to think of it is this: If in writing software for your company and its customers, did you use any other third-party libraries, including Apache Flex? And if you wanted to submit a patch to any of those libraries, would your company want to claim ownership of that patch or not? You might need to have a conversation with someone with authority at your company and get an answer in writing. In summary, the CCLA is not an assignment. Ownership is established when code is changed. But we need to understand if your company owns any code in that repo in order to know if a CCLA is needed. HTH, -Alex
