On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 1:20 PM, harry <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 !
The contract states that approval needs to be obtained on a case by case basis. The concern seems to be less about the IP issues and more about potential conflict of interest and misuse of company time and resources. -- b
