On Dec 04, 2012, at 12:42 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: >The main issue for some of us is not so much the ethical objections to >these sorts of agreements but rather the fact that our employers flatly >are not interested in signing anything of the sort, ever, with anyone. >Much of my free software work is done as part of my day job, and my >employer is unwilling to sign any of these agreements (but is fine with me >releasing my work under free software licenses).
That's a very real problem that I have encountered with potential contributors to my GNU projects. I've been on the other end of it in past jobs, where Legal is no fun at all to interact with. -Barry
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