Morning,
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end. ENOCHOICE about using Outlook. . .]
So I'm writing some (hopefully) fairly useful Perl modules at $dayjob, and
want to release them to the outside world. I suspect this is going to be
a novelty to the
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 09:20:22AM -, Clayton, Nik [IT] wrote:
So I'm writing some (hopefully) fairly useful Perl modules at $dayjob, and
want to release them to the outside world. I suspect this is going to be
a novelty to the corporate lawyers.
Has anyone here had experience of doing
Sent: 19 March 2002 09:20
To: london.pm
Cc: nik.clayton
Subject: War stories on releasing code
Morning,
[ Apologies if there's any misformatting, or a horrendous
disclaimer at the
end. ENOCHOICE about using Outlook. . .]
So I'm writing some (hopefully) fairly useful Perl modules
You contract will probably state that anything you write
automatically
becomes property of the company. One contract that I was
presented with
specified that anything I came up with ( software, financial method,
lawnmower ) then became the companys property.
That's not so much the
On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Your contract will probably state that anything you write automatically
becomes property of the company. One contract that I was presented with
specified that anything I came up with ( software, financial method,
lawnmower ) then became the
Read the GPL carefully. Read your employment contract carefully.
Remember you can't un-GPL source code; all you need is a GPL'ed core
that you can build on, that can be produced by anybody. Perhaps yourself
if works created in your own time are your own property. Then just make
sure you're
Read the GPL carefully.
I won't be using the GPL (if this code is released). It'll be BSD
licensed.
N
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On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 09:20:22AM -, Clayton, Nik [IT] wrote:
So I'm writing some (hopefully) fairly useful Perl modules at $dayjob, and
want to release them to the outside world. I suspect this is going to be
a novelty to the corporate lawyers.
Has anyone here had experience of
