[Biojava-dev] Contributor License Agreement?

[Brian Repko]

Hi Spencer and Michael,



My employer owns the copyright for anything that I do on their equipment
or during the workday.
They could own the copyright for those parts of BioJava.



However, they might be interested in not being the copyright holder
(which can open them up to
a lawsuit if I was to copy someone else's work blah blah blah). That
however (as I understand it)
is changing my employment agreement to allow for me to contribute to
BioJava as me in this case.


I've carved out exceptions to the "we own you" clause that in the past.
I can go that route.
I might reach out to another past BioJava contributor that worked at the
same place.


Thank you!

-brian



----- Original message -----

From: Spencer Bliven <spencer.bliven at gmail.com>

To: Michael Heuer <heuermh at gmail.com>

Cc: Brian Repko <brian.repko at learnthinkcode.com>, "biojava-dev" <biojava-dev at biojava.org>
Subject: Re: [Biojava-dev] Contributor License Agreement?

Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2016 10:34:15 +0100



Many of the contributors do so as part of their work. Is there an issue
that your company would claim copyright for your contributions? I don't
see this as being a problem (after all, it's LGPL). If you want I guess
we could create an agreement whereby you assign copyright for your
contributions to OBF (biojava's parent organization), thereby not
creating any IP for your company.




-Spencer



On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 9:28 PM, Michael Heuer <heuermh at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Brian,

> I don't believe we have one.  For copyright the license states

> 

> "Copyright for this code is held jointly by the individual authors."

> 

>    michael

> 

> 

> On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 2:14 PM, Brian Repko
> <brian.repko at learnthinkcode.com> wrote:
>> __

>> BioJava team:

>> 

>> I'm looking for the Corporate Contributor License Agreement for
>> BioJava.
>> Can anyone point me to that?

>> 

>> I need to have that signed in order to be able to use company time /
>> resources for BioJava contributions.
>> 

>> Thank you!

>> 

>> -brian

>> 

>> 

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