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What legal risk is the company at without a clause like this?
by ace32229 6y ago
What legal risk is the company at without a clause like this?
- ghostpepper 6y agoI am not a lawyer but my guess is their fear (no idea how plausible) would be a situation where an employee creates an open source project and uses it at work in a way where it becomes critical to the business, then later leaves the company and demands some sort of royalties/licensing
- megous 6y agoIf it's opensource under the usual OSS licenses, the former emplpyee can only demand something for further work/improvements, not for already existing code. And companies typically have no trouble critically relying on OSS projects they have no chance of forking/maintaining if something changes that they can't accept.
- saagarjha 6y agoYour employee creates your direct competitor.