Re: Careless coders tempting legal troubles
Message ID: 140840
Posted By: thaddeusbeier
Posted On: 2004-06-04 10:26:00
Subject: Re: Careless coders tempting legal trou
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Interestingly, there are two facets of this that weigh heavily toward instead of against open source software.
1) If you open source your software, and you've purloined proprietary code done as work-for-hire for your previous company, they'll most likely see it and come after you. As they should. Copying the code into another closed source system carries with it all the potential liability, but in a way that is more insidious.
2) If you open-sourced the software when it was written, then it's just not a problem using it at the next job.
In my experience, I prevailed upon my previous employer to let me write a paper for a technical conference describing the techniques I used to create the morphing software used back in the early 90's, so that I could use the ideas but not the code at my next job.
http://www.hammerhead.com/thad/morph.html
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Posted By: thaddeusbeier
Posted On: 2004-06-04 10:26:00
Subject: Re: Careless coders tempting legal trou
Recs: 0
Interestingly, there are two facets of this that weigh heavily toward instead of against open source software.
1) If you open source your software, and you've purloined proprietary code done as work-for-hire for your previous company, they'll most likely see it and come after you. As they should. Copying the code into another closed source system carries with it all the potential liability, but in a way that is more insidious.
2) If you open-sourced the software when it was written, then it's just not a problem using it at the next job.
In my experience, I prevailed upon my previous employer to let me write a paper for a technical conference describing the techniques I used to create the morphing software used back in the early 90's, so that I could use the ideas but not the code at my next job.
http://www.hammerhead.com/thad/morph.html
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