From pabs3 at bonedaddy.net Wed Feb 14 23:28:21 2018 From: pabs3 at bonedaddy.net (Paul Wise) Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2018 07:28:21 +0800 Subject: [ContractPatch] successfully renegotiated contract to include copyright ownership of open source code Message-ID: <1518650901.27241.19.camel@bonedaddy.net> Hi all, I've successfully renegotiated my employment contract to include copyright ownership of open source code. We were negotiating an increase in compensation, which included corresponding changes to the contract. Inspired by ContractPatch and also my colleague already having a clause giving them copyright ownership of open source code (mostly for contribution to samba, where corporate copyrights are discouraged), I decided to ask for the addition of developer ownership of copyrights on open source code. My employer was happy to add the clause they were already using for my colleague to my contract too. I also suggested that it be added to the contracts for my other colleagues and be made part of my employer's standard contract, they seemed to agree that this was a good idea in principle. Essentially, the change to the contract was taking the existing copyright section, duplicating it, adding an if clause to each duplicate and changing the ownership to developer on the OSS one. I have also been given permission to share the language of the copyright section privately with ContractPatch folks, which I will do in reply to this email. https://www.samba.org/samba/devel/copyright-policy.html -- bye, pabs http://bonedaddy.net/pabs3/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 833 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: