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If I ran Github, I'd put a link to this and a summary on the front page. I haven't heard a better argument for distributed source control. The guy who uploaded

• jonknee 17y ago
  Just as long as they make sure to note never to rely on GitHub (I know everyone will have the full repo backed up, but for working together, deployment, etc). This kind of thing makes it clear GH could be toast because some yahoo decided to upload illegal code.
• nailer 17y ago
  The guy says he was uploading OSS work he did at Goldmans, same as he did when he worked there. It's not unusual for Quant researchers who work in R or SciPy/NumPy to update the modules they use to build their models, that source code is copyright by the developers of the statistical language modules - Goldman's don't own it.
  • rs 17y ago
    Eh ? Not sure what you meant there, but if you and your employer do have a contract that says "all work that you produce while working here is owned by your employer", my understanding would be that updates to those modules, when written for your employers are actually owned by them, no ? (well, within software licensing terms)
    • nailer 17y ago
      Let me know what wasn't clear. Most employers who use OSS apps - including R, SciPy NumPy and other statistical languages - are comfortable with staff fixing bugs in those languages and distributing their modified copies of the works.