I got my manager to explicitly consent to automatic donations to Apache when we need to fix things in the SDK. I'm not sure this (i.e. an email) is enough from a legal standpoint.
On 26 August 2014 17:13, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote: > A question came up off-list that made me wonderŠ > > I've been an employee pretty much my whole career. Right now I work for > Adobe and everything line of code I write is owned by Adobe, even at home > after hours, even on my own computer, unless I cut a special deal. > Fortunately, I have their blanket permission to auto-donate work related > to Apache Flex to the ASF. > > My understanding is that when contractors work for a client, the client > generally owns the code. So the question I have is: if you are a > contractor and fix an SDK bug in the course of trying to get the client's > app to run, who owns that fix? Or do your contracts have ways of > specifying what code the client gets to own or not. I would imagine some > of you have an arsenal of libraries that you use in multiple projects. > > Thanks in advance, > -Alex >
