> if I produce something over the weekends, my employer has legal power to claim it as their IP I live in Germany and I'm certain you are mistaken. The situati

> if I produce something over the weekends, my employer has legal power to claim it as their IP I live in Germany and I'm certain you are mistaken. The situation becomes different if you so much as looked at your OSS projects during work hours, but the projects you work on in your free time are yours. This is similar to how your FT employer can't keep you from taking up another part time job on the weekends. Just because your contract has such a clause doesn't mean it's enforcable in court.