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From: Anuradha Ratnaweera <anuradha@ratnaweera.net>
To: Bas Mevissen <ml@basmevissen.nl>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Contributing to the kernel while being employed
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 10:50:06 -0400
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On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 20:38, Bas Mevissen wrote:
> Anuradha Ratnaweera wrote:
> > 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
> > wishes to do open source development, especially as a hobby.
> > 
> 
> Isn't this whole "problem" solved if you do your hobbies in your own 
> free time? Of course, then you should also NOT use any IP from your 
> employer then.

Not always.  Some contracts talk about "employement", while others (most
are of this catagory) are about the "employement period".  The latter
_does_ include all 24 hours of the day (I have checked it with some
legal folks.)

	Anuradha


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