Debian has, like all software projects, always had rules about how you created the code you contributed. No software project is going to accept your contribute

Debian has, like all software projects, always had rules about how you created the code you contributed. No software project is going to accept your contributed code which you wrote at work using company time and resources; that’s a copyright violation. There has never been a situation in which simply your contributed code can be analyzed and accepted in a vacuum. Bits do have color: <https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23#:~:text=historical https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23#:~:text=historical>