Hey, open sourcers: Who’s your code’s daddy?

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Matt Asay
Jan 16, 2013

Open… and shut So-called “pre-invention assignment agreements” are a rite of passage when joining a company. For an open-source developer, they may also be giving away the keys to an open-source project, as VMware’s recent legal action against the founder of the Vert.x project show

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Matt Asay

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