From: "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" <hps@intermeta.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Contributing to the kernel while being employed
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 12:58:55 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bgb3qf$grt$1@tangens.hometree.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1059574407.1759.26.camel@anuradha
Anuradha Ratnaweera <anuradha@ratnaweera.net> writes:
>Before working for a commercial organization, one usually has to sign a
>contract which makes all the work done during the period of employment
>(including innovations, "hobby" coding done during "after hours")
>copyrighted by the employer. This introduces various problems when one
This is neither possible in Germany ("sittenwidrig") nor can an
employer slap a Copyright on code that you've wrote in your free time
(Copyright stays with the Author (This is "Urheberrecht" und
"Verwertungsrecht" in Germany)).
Exec summary: Don't sign such an agreement. Sounds like slavery to me.
Regards
Henning
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-31 12:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-30 14:13 Contributing to the kernel while being employed Anuradha Ratnaweera
2003-07-30 14:36 ` Wichert Akkerman
2003-07-30 14:38 ` Bas Mevissen
2003-07-30 14:46 ` Larry McVoy
2003-07-30 15:05 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-30 18:42 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-07-30 15:08 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-07-30 18:54 ` brian
2003-07-31 12:58 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen [this message]
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2003-07-30 14:50 Anuradha Ratnaweera
2003-07-30 14:58 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-30 15:13 ` Bas Mevissen
2003-07-30 15:05 Downing, Thomas
2003-07-30 15:11 Anuradha Ratnaweera
2003-07-30 16:31 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-07-30 16:58 ` henrique2.gobbi
2003-07-30 17:16 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-07-30 17:43 ` Richard B. Johnson
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