Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 02:54:02 +0200 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Why Clang Message-ID: <201206210054.q5L0s2O5071935@fire.js.berklix.net> In-Reply-To: Your message "Thu, 21 Jun 2012 00:18:09 %2B0200." <20120621001809.da9ce415.freebsd@edvax.de>
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Hi Polytropon, cc questions@ (No CC Wojciech P. as my local filters drop text from him ) > To translate this to a programmer's job: > > You're being paid to write a program for a customer. You > deliver the program. That's what you are paid for. Still > the source code is yours (as _you_ are the creator, no > matter who you sold "a copy" to). So I would assume that > you can still use the program for further projects that > run independently from that customer. > > EXCEPT - of course, there is a contract specifying otherwise. There's often legal (copyright, patents, etc) discussions on FreeBSD lists, maybe we should have a legal@freebsd.org list on http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo There's 193 countries in the United Nations http://www.un.org/en/members/growth.shtml Some have different laws even within one country: In UK, England & Scotland have different contract law: http://www.inhouselawyer.co.uk/index.php/scotland-home/8094-scots-and-english-contract-law-false-friends Decades back USA employees by default retained more patent &/or maybe copyright rights than UK employees. In UK by default it went to employer. But if a USA employer put a clause in to over- ride the default ? ... IANAL = I Am Not A Lawyer etc. German employee law I don't know. I've always been freelance. Tip: Often mentioning the idea at the beginnning of contracts, technical project directors are happy to ask their legal dept. to add a simple clause they draft themselves along the lines of eg: Customer has exclusive rights to code written just for project. Programmer can keep & publish general code written or enhanced for general tools not exclusively for project. Customer can keep & use a copy of tools. Best to suggest such ideas at the beginning not end of projects. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below not above, cumulative like a play script, & indent with "> ". Format: Plain text. Not HTML, multipart/alternative, base64, quoted-printable. Mail from @yahoo dumped @berklix. http://berklix.org/yahoo/
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