On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, VJ wrote: > Hi, > I came to know that a legislation in EU says that all my work > (even the one that I develop at home, in my free time) is owned by > my company. What do I have to do in case I have something to > contribute and I developed it in my free time at home. are you sure about *all* of your work being owned by your company? that seems like a rather unreasonable restriction, unless you explicitly signed such an agreement when you were hired. that sounds like the kind of thing that companies *like* to say even when it's unenforceable. in any case, if your company has no objections to you GPLing some off-hours work you've done, then read: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html toward the bottom, where it states: ==== ... You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or your school, if any, to sign a "copyright disclaimer" for the program, if necessary. Here is a sample; alter the names: Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the program `Gnomovision' (which makes passes at compilers) written by James Hacker. signature of Ty Coon, 1 April 1989 Ty Coon, President of Vice ===== rday
