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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
