Your colleague must have an employment contract which has a clause indicating all work done for the organization is "work for hire etc" - and that covers work done related to the office. If this states that the company owns rights to code written during work timings -and while pursuing a task assigned by the company - then I think your friend has nothing to worry about (assuming he is working on the open source project in his own time). However, some contracts say this : "organization owns all rights to work produced during the period of employment" - that would be a problem - and your friend would need to take it up with the company since they could claim ownership on any open source work done on his own time. I have seen some contracts which even claim ownership on prior work done by an employee !
On 4 June 2014 13:08, Biju Chacko <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > A colleague wants to start an open source project and wanted to make > sure our employer is ok with it. I was wondering if anyone here could > point me to some templates or other resources for this kind of > agreement. A quick google didn't get me anything useful. > > -- b > >
