On 10/11/07, Oren Beck <orenbeck@gmail.com> wrote:
Ok folks, here is a potential answer to the issue of "abandonware" . Possibly even a poison pill to the "buy a project to bury it" megacorp game too.
<snip> IANAL, but Practically everything I've ever done has fallen into the category "work for hire". That appears to mean (from lawsuits and threats of lawsuits that I've seen) that the paying customer (employer or customer of employer) is the one with the rights from the very beginning. You'd probably need to get that kind of provision into your employee agreement from the very beginning. I have gone to the effort to get a release from my employer to submit patches to a couple of projects in the past, just to be safe. -- Eric Johnson "Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness." Saint Augustine