Everyone in the thread is overly paranoid. IANAL but have delt with this stuff enough to know that in general you’re fine if California law applies and it’s an

Everyone in the thread is overly paranoid. IANAL but have delt with this stuff enough to know that in general you’re fine if California law applies and it’s an MIT license - don’t violate the MIT license though. None of the non compete clauses are enforceable here and you can compete with your employer. What you can’t likely do is induce previous colleges to quit the company and join your new company for whatever the term is that the contract says you can’t. Usually a year. When you “fork” it don’t just hit the fork button if you are real concerned. Make sure you have your own copy of the thing and re push it. They can sue you if they feel like it no matter what the contract says or CA law but they will probably lose on the terms you mentioned in CA. So unless you are high up and going to a direct competitor of say amazon hypothetically, you probably have nothing to worry about. And yeah, sure, have an attorney read your contract if you really want. It’s 300-400 bucks well spent because then you have an attorney you have worked with when something real hairy comes up.