Re: PostgreSQL-related legal question

One of my sons was hired by Google last year after spending the past
several years working on various open-source projects, it took 2 days of
back-and-forth with Google's legal department before he was satisfied with
the restrictions in their offer.
--
Mike Nolan

On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 4:46 PM, Jan de Visser <jan(at)de-visser(dot)net> wrote:

> On March 12, 2015 06:43:40 AM Gavin Flower wrote:
> > Bill cannot comment, but it might be along the lines of assigning all
> > intellectual property rights, or something of that ilk. In that case, it
> > might give the company ownership of stuff he may have contributed (or
> > intends to contribute) to PostgreSQL in some way – which could lead to
> > legal complications affecting PostgreSQL adversely, which would be
> > expensive and an unnecessary distraction.
>
> I used to work for a company that did exactly that - you had to sign a
> contract that claimed copyright of all your work, even work done outside of
> work hours, to the company. They did however tell you beforehand that if
> you
> were an established contributor to an open-source project they could make
> exceptions for that, but you had to go through legal.
>
> But the upshot was that if you wrote an iPhone app in 15 minutes, the
> company
> would own that, technically.
>
>
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