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Likewise, I have commercially irrelevant code on GitHub/Codeberg. But as it is all under BSD or MIT licenses, it makes no practical difference to me if my curre
by kps 2y ago
Likewise, I have commercially irrelevant code on GitHub/Codeberg. But as it is all under BSD or MIT licenses, it makes no practical difference to me if my current employer wants to claim ownership; I can pick up where I left off all the same.
- munchler 2y agoIANAL, but I think that if they were to assert copyright over your code, the license you chose would be irrelevant (since the code was never yours to license in the first place).
- josephg 2y agoMaybe. If you’re a senior engineer, I could also imagine arguing that I had authority to license it under BSD or whatever as an agent of my employer. The argument would probably be much stronger if you got sign off from your boss though. And legal if your company is big enough. (Though IANAL)
- kps 2y agoI should have clarified (and it's too late to edit) that this refers to code I wrote and licensed before the applicable employment. It was already made public under a BSD/MIT license, so everyone (including me) is allowed to use and fork that version, even the ownership later changes and the new owner licenses theirs differently.