Who owns your code?

While reading through Perl Monks a while ago I found this thread. It deals with who exactly owns the code your write - on and OFF working hours. Reading it REALLY made me nervous. Granted I haven’t written anything worthwhile - but the idea that my company can own EVERYTHING I have EVER written while employed is just plain old wrong. I think I need to talk to my boss about this and get it straightened out and on paper.

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One Response to Who owns your code?

  1. Raj Shekhar :

    I doubt if any company can enforce it legally, i.e the part about owning the code that you write in your free time. Better companies are willing to sign a ‘disterest agreement’ if you can prove that the code that you will be writing (for a open source project) is not in direct competition of the comapny’s products.

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