Barry Margolin wrote:
In article <[email protected]>,
[email protected] (Name withheld by request) wrote:
How might one ethically/legally re-write a suite of scripts one wrote
for a former employer, so that the new code may be shared under GPL?
IANAL, but I think this is likely to be difficult. You have to ensure
that your new code looks nothing like the old code.
The GPL is irrelevant to this question, it's the same problem no matter
how you plan on licensing the new code, unless your old employer gives
you permission. Otherwise, there's likely to be a presumption that you
copied some of your previous code, which you don't have rights to (the
copyright belongs to the ex-employer).
The best guide would be to study the principles underlying the
abstraction-filtration-comparison test used by the courts to
answer infringement questions.
http://digital-law-online.info/lpdi1.0/treatise22.html
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