drew Roberts wrote: > On Sunday 02 August 2009 09:41:57 Arnold Krille wrote: > >> Standard contracts for employees include that the copyrights of their >> productive work during company time is property of the company. And that >> includes software... >> >> Arnold >> > > OK, but what about the copyrights of their non productive work during company > time? > > Or is all copyrightable work done on company time legally deemed to be > *productive* ??? ~;-) > > all the best, > > drew
This is a well known problem. If it's not part of the contract and by standard contracts it isn't, you have the copyright to what you make not for your employer. It might be that you program something, not under the GPL, not open source, that has the same function as what you programmed for your employer. 1. Maybe you used the same routines, but nobody can know this. 2. Maybe you were writing a compete new program. I worked as engineer for Brauner some years ago, am I allowed to develop and distribute a microphone today by all the knowledge I've got from the time I worked for Brauner? I guess the answers will differ to the countries we are living in. Brauner don't pay me any more, I don't got a compensation to be quiet and in Germany many people are unemployed. So I'm allowed to do so. I only see a problem for a coder who do program 2 applications doing the same, one for his employer and the other under the GPL or what ever licences. I guess this is something a court needs to decide by asking programming experts ;). _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
