Comment on I wrote a program for my boss. How legal is to to write the program again and make it FOSS?
Tischkante@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
Just change the language used to write it, if possible.
Comment on I wrote a program for my boss. How legal is to to write the program again and make it FOSS?
Tischkante@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
Just change the language used to write it, if possible.
anzo@programming.dev 7 months ago
That’s practical, but not so sound, advice. IANAL, yet… I remember when Julia lang was gaining traction that many R lang programmers wanted to port their favorite packages. If they were to look at the R sources (under GPL) to write the Julia version to be released under MIT license, they would be violating the GPL. Or there was a risk, at least. Of course, this case is different because the first and original version is not GPL. But this came to mind. Anyway, I suppose that it all boils down to how much OP feels like their employer (boss or anyone with power in the company) will be a son-of-a-cop and really come forward to court against him… I mean, that’s in the first place. Then, comes the legal advice, as to how much of a case can be made, and what do we expect a judge would see it…
DroneRights@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Not a him