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Have the volunteer release his work/part under MIT license, then you can use it for whatever you want (open source or within closed source proprietary stuff). A
by dryicerx 17y ago
Have the volunteer release his work/part under MIT license, then you can use it for whatever you want (open source or within closed source proprietary stuff). Another option is simply paying him a small sum, just so it would have been compensated work.
- phaedrus 17y agoI have heard of at least one story where an employee-programmer was compensated for his work and later claimed copyright-ownership over the code he was hired to write, and was successful in getting some kind of court decision or settlement, so I don't think the mere existence of compensation alone is sufficient to prove transfer of ownership. But the MIT license part you suggested is reasonable.