In general, no, if the employee is simply working on the code as part of the company, that does not count as distributing the code to the employee (unless the c

In general, no, if the employee is simply working on the code as part of the company, that does not count as distributing the code to the employee (unless the company explicitly did so). See the GNU FAQ on this - https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#InternalDistribution https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#InternalDistrib... - and slightly more elaboration at https://opensource.stackexchange.com/a/10459/ https://opensource.stackexchange.com/a/10459/