Le 16/06/2014 22:25, Brian Wolff a écrit :
Thus the new policy would require anyone submitting code to use to declare who they work for. Personally this seems both unnecessary to me, as well as unlikely to be followed. For example, I see no reason why some person who uses our software should have to declare who they work for when they upstream a bug fix, etc.
Hello,
If you write the code as an employee of a company during your company work hours, the code legally belong to the company you are working for not to you as an individual. Unless specially stated in your work contract.
So in this case, it would make sense to set the proper copyright (your company) or at least have a legal document stating the company grant you a license to do what you want with the code (ie assign the copyright to you as an individual).
My personal situation:
I, as an individual, generate code that has my copyright though it is done under my own company. I have a legal document with my own company that has all the code belong to me as an individual.
I then have a copyright agreement with Wikimedia which establish a joint copyright between the foundation and me. That basically says that the code belong to both of us and is initially published under a free license (ex: GPLv2 / CC-BY-SA).