On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 10:23:15AM +0100, John N S Gill mentioned:
> My company has just come out with one of these company policy things
> which includes some nasty stuff about ownership of ideas etc which
> "are applicable to the company's business".
Lovely. Just cross it out in the contract. I know people that have
refused jobs in Internet Ireland over such things.
Either way, many changes you make to GPL'd code won't be applicable to
the companies' business, and you can always submit it, and don't ask
permission anyway ;)
John
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