From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Mar 28 12:44:35 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net (hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B2D837B416; Thu, 28 Mar 2002 12:44:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0038.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.42.38] helo=mindspring.com) by hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16qgkb-00020d-00; Thu, 28 Mar 2002 12:44:02 -0800 Message-ID: <3CA3807A.2F4E40F0@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 12:43:38 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nate Williams Cc: Matthew Whelan , Gregory Neil Shapiro , Robert L Sowders , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The sendmail discussion... References: <31R8LK0ID4WKF4QPFEQKDBVPLMG.3ca3749d@VicNBob> <3CA3769B.A6B22D2@mindspring.com> <15523.32347.105583.984050@caddis.yogotech.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Nate Williams wrote: > > > (my company demands > > > that all software I write, including in my own free time, is copyright by > > > them) > > > > You need to move to California, where this is against the law. > > Every California company I've worked for has made me sign a statement > with the above stipulation. In order to avoid this, I was required to > specifically describe projects I worked on prior to my employment that > were immune from these restrictions. > > It may be illegal, but I'm guessing that you and I don't have the legal > resources to fight it in court should an occasion if the employer wanted > to be enforce the statement, which was signed voluntarily. ACLU will back you on matters of public policy, and so will the state's attorney's general office. FWIW: having a list of exclusions is also a good thing, since it makes you think about what you are working on, and gives you a nice intro to licensing things to your new employer, if it comes to it. My last exclusion list had nearly 300 items on it. 8-). Ask Julian and Archie about their IBM exclusion lists. Julian had an incredibly funny one (IMO), which (amazingly) IBM didn't balk at... -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message