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If you haven't licensed your code to them, they shouldn't be able to legally incorporate it in their product. (Although perhaps you implicitly or explicitly gav
by anikan_vader 7y ago
If you haven't licensed your code to them, they shouldn't be able to legally incorporate it in their product. (Although perhaps you implicitly or explicitly gave them permission during the interview). But this is usually not very relevant as you probably will never know whether these companies are using your code or not.
If you only want to prevent companies from using your code in proprietary software, you could send them your code with a GPL license.
Copyright aside, yes, unpaid length projects during interviews are an atrocity.
- _throwawayyyyyy 7y agoDefinitely no license given. Additionally I usually throw an "all rights reserved" on there somewhere to acknowledge my authorship and ownership of the product. That's great for code + the specific execution of it... for me I often have to also do design engineering and content/concept prototyping as part of these projects. Creative work in addition to the code. I'm not sure there's a way to protect those ideas the same way you can the code.