Le Wed, 04 Jan 2012 11:58:55 +0100, Roan Kattouw roan.kattouw@gmail.com a écrit:
In your post, you ask whether the employee owns the copyright on their own work, or whether WMF does. I don't know this for sure, because it's not explicitly mentioned in my contract, but I believe it's owned by the employee/contractor. All the WMF-written code I've seen in the past few years claims to be copyrighted by the author, and the fact that my contract requires me to license my work in a certain way seems to imply I own the copyright on that work, otherwise I wouldn't even have the power to license it.
That is how I understand it. My contract enforce me to publish all my work as a contractor under a free license. I am assuming the code is still my intellectual property though.
For WMF employees, I am sure the copyright belong to the WMF.