Patrick Shirkey wrote: > > On 08/02/2009 08:14 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> Arnold Krille wrote: >> >>> If you didn't sign a contract and work on a project, the >>> copyright is still yours >>> >> >> Are you sure? I guess (and I'm not sure) that if you did some kind of >> work, e.g. being a developer for a company, it implies that the employer >> will take on the copyright and that you aren't allowed to disclose >> know-how, even if there isn't a special contract saying this. If I'm >> wrong, this would give me some thrilling views for my future, because >> of my past and especially a friend could benefit from this, because he >> did much more for other people than I did. >> > > Just because you work for a company or contribute code to a company > doesn't give them exclusive license to your code. > > You have to *explicitly* sign or give that right away. > > IIUC, if you don't sign a contract or otherwise agree in writing or > verbally that your code is not owned by you or your company then it's > yours or your companies to do with as you or your company will. > > Caveat is that your use of the code can not infringe on any other > rights for any other owners of any code that you have used as part of > your code or linked to in a way that makes it a part of your codebase > in a legal definition of any licenses that are attributed to code that > you have used or linked with. > > > phew..... > > > This is why gpl is so much simpler and loved.
You aren't from Germany?! I was in another situation, I signed a contract that said, I'll lose rights for artworks if I sell it. That's fine. But in addition the contract said, any work that I hand in to the company must not be hand in to any other company, even if they won't by my artwork. In Germany we call this "Sittenwidrig" (immoral), such a stipulation is null and void. Here I know that it is that way. On the other hand, if a company pays you a regular salary and the job is named "developer", it might include that a copyright will subrogate to the employer, even if there isn't any stipulation saying this. Here I'm not sure. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
