On 4/20/21 7:42 AM, Richard Kenner via Gcc wrote:
Troubling indeed, but this might just be an overzealous manager.
IBM, like other corporations, has made significant technical
contributions to GCC over the years, for example the scheduler and
the vectorizer, and thus has assigned the copyright of these
contributions to the FSF.
Yes, as long as the employee is doing it as part of their work for IBM,
which was the case in your examples. What's never been OK for IBM are
their employees doing software development "on their own time" because
they've taken the position that such doesn't exist.
It amazes me how many people who don't work for IBM want to assert IBM's
policies.
There is certainly ability to work on projects on your own time that
don't conflict with IBM's business. You simply have to be open about it
and make sure your management is aware.
Bill
