Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 12:43:38 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> Cc: Matthew Whelan <muttley@gotadsl.co.uk>, Gregory Neil Shapiro <gshapiro@FreeBSD.ORG>, Robert L Sowders <rsowders@usgs.gov>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The sendmail discussion... Message-ID: <3CA3807A.2F4E40F0@mindspring.com> References: <31R8LK0ID4WKF4QPFEQKDBVPLMG.3ca3749d@VicNBob> <3CA3769B.A6B22D2@mindspring.com> <15523.32347.105583.984050@caddis.yogotech.com>
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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-current" in the body of the message
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