SecureD moving to GitLab

[Walter Bright]

On 6/6/2018 2:17 AM, Russel Winder wrote:
> It is worth noting that any employer who understands software
> development and is involved in software development will write into the
> contract of employment that all software created by an employee at any
> time is the property of the employer. However, they must also have a
> system for explicitly allowing employees to work on code in their own
> time (or even on company time) that is then contributed under some
> licence or other. The point here is that the employee effectively has
> first refusal on all software created.


Oh, employers do try that. I would negotiate what is mine and what is the 
company's, before signing. In particular, I'd disclose all projects I'd worked 
on before, and get a specific acknowledgement that those were not the company's. 
When I'd moonlight, before I'd do so, I'd describe the project on a piece of 
paper and get acknowledgement from the company that it is not their project.

And I never had any trouble about it.

(These days, life is a bit simpler. One thing I like about Github is the 
software is all date stamped, so I could, for instance, prove I wrote it before 
joining company X.)