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It sounds like the company wants to work with you to work out a good solution. How have they responded when you told them: * I'd like to keep roadmap control

by bcx 7y ago

It sounds like the company wants to work with you to work out a good solution. How have they responded when you told them: * I'd like to keep roadmap control * I'd like to be compensated for the work I put in on my own time out side of work. (which is well documented from the commit logs, and the fact I wasn't using an employer owned computer) * I'd like to keep working on this on my own time outside of work. If you are worried about long-long term, i.e. the time that exists after you leave the company, with the right software licensing strategy it's likely you could fork the project down the road and retain roadmap control of at least a fork of the main project. You may want to consider working with your company's lawyers to choose a license (you can re-license open source software -- https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/33/how-can-a-project-be-relicensed https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/33/how-can-a-...) or figure out if the Apache license meets your needs. Short term it sounds like the outcome is pretty clear, long term seems like you have a lot of options.

yolo42 7y ago
> I'd like to be compensated for the work I put in on my own time out side of work. (which is well documented from the commit logs, and the fact I wasn't using an employer owned computer) The company overall is quite stingy and I doubt that they will do this part. I'm trying to figure out what other things that I can ask for other than financial compensation. Someone mentioned Promotion and a positive review is something to ask for, which makes some sense. The only problem is according to my review, I'm already exceeding expectations. So, this project doesn't buy me much. Overall, they are fine, and kind of, want me to drive the project, essentially because there is no one else who can do that job.
- john_moscow 7y ago
  From what I can tell, it's not a very big company, so they should be flexible. So I would try to turn the tables around and get a non-exclusive deal like this: * The company agrees to pay you for adding some extra features to the project * You keep control and exclusive rights, but give them a license to use it (but not transfer it to others) Edit: even if they legally can claim full ownership of the project, you have the full right to resign and go work on something else after they do so. And if this is not what they want, you will have pretty good chances negotiating a non-exclusive deal instead. One last piece of advice: === DO NOT AGREE TO ANYTHING WITHOUT A LAWYER === Many companies would consider it business as usual to agree on your terms verbally and then slip in a clause in the contract that would completely change the balance in their favor.

by bcx 7y ago

yolo42 7y ago

> I'd like to be compensated for the work I put in on my own time out side of work. (which is well documented from the commit logs, and the fact I wasn't using an employer owned computer) The company overall is quite stingy and I doubt that they will do this part. I'm trying to figure out what other things that I can ask for other than financial compensation. Someone mentioned Promotion and a positive review is something to ask for, which makes some sense. The only problem is according to my review, I'm already exceeding expectations. So, this project doesn't buy me much. Overall, they are fine, and kind of, want me to drive the project, essentially because there is no one else who can do that job.

john_moscow 7y ago
From what I can tell, it's not a very big company, so they should be flexible. So I would try to turn the tables around and get a non-exclusive deal like this: * The company agrees to pay you for adding some extra features to the project * You keep control and exclusive rights, but give them a license to use it (but not transfer it to others) Edit: even if they legally can claim full ownership of the project, you have the full right to resign and go work on something else after they do so. And if this is not what they want, you will have pretty good chances negotiating a non-exclusive deal instead. One last piece of advice: === DO NOT AGREE TO ANYTHING WITHOUT A LAWYER === Many companies would consider it business as usual to agree on your terms verbally and then slip in a clause in the contract that would completely change the balance in their favor.