RE: nCurses Porting to VMS

[Jürgen Pfeifer]

AFAIK it is not that simple. It depends on the country. If you do work in your 
own time and on your own equipment but in an area that is closely related to 
your work in some coutries you might have legal problems.

Jürgen


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Weaver [mailto:address@hidden 
> Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 10:04 PM
> To: address@hidden
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: nCurses Porting to VMS
> 
> 
> At 03:32 PM 10/28/2002 -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> >On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 03:16:34PM +0100, 
> >address@hidden
> wrote:
> >> 
> >> I am currently porting nCurses to openVMS.
> >> 
> >> As I am new to the open source, I have a few questions:
> >> - Are you interested in adding the port to VMS into the future 
> >> release of nCurses ?
> >
> >yes
> > 
> >> - If yes, what will I have to do in order to give you all 
> rights on 
> >> my code (I am working on this at my working place, 
> therefore all what 
> >> I write is copyrigthed to my compagny)
> 
> If you are doing this work for your company, and on company 
> time then the work belongs to your company and you can't give 
> it away.  However if you are doing the work on your own time 
> on your own equipment then you can do anything you want with it.
> 
> When I submitted TACK to FSF they required me to get written 
> statements from all my employers and all contributors stating 
> that they (the employers) have no claim on the code.
> 
> The correct answer is to talk to your employer and find out 
> what their policy is concerning free software and if they 
> would mind if you made your changes available to the public.
> 
> 
> 
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> Dan Weaver, ZNYX Networks
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