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> I worked for a company once that had this sort of "we own everything" IP clause. To clarify: Bumble doesn't appear to be going after everything this develope
by PragmaticPulp 5y ago
> I worked for a company once that had this sort of "we own everything" IP clause.
To clarify: Bumble doesn't appear to be going after everything this developer produced while working for them.
They're claiming ownership of only two specific repos, both of which even mention that they were "inspired by" Badoo/Bumble open-source projects. These two repos were developed while the developer was working for Badoo/Bumble and I assume are directly related to the type of work the developer was doing for hire.
Obviously we don't have all the details, but from what I'm seeing it seems Badoo/Bumble may actually have a strong case for these repos being their property, even without weird IP assignment clauses.
If either tool was used or contributed to while developing the Bumble app, it's basically no question that they have rights to it. On the other hand, if the author somehow never, ever used them as part of his dayjob and never, ever worked on them as part of his work for Bumble, the claims would be questionable.
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- castrojr913 5y agoI really hate this draconian attitude of these sort of companies. I think these 'brilliant' lawyers, experts in putting on abusive clauses, also ought to making the software for these companies. There is still a lot of work to do with OSS philosophy for software industry.
- CRConrad 5y agoWhile you have a point in general, it's a bit weird posting this in response to a comment that explains how this particular case apparently isn't actually all that "draconian".