Contributing code to open-source in EU?

[Rui Miguel Seabra]

On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 10:40 +0000, VJ wrote:
>     I came to know that a legislation in EU says that all my work (even 
> the one that I develop at home, in my free time) is owned by my company. 
> What do I have to do in case I have something to contribute and I 
> developed it in my free time at home.

What that directive did (known as the software copyright directive) was
set the default to: what you do while your work at your company is
theirs. What you do on your own personal free time is yours.

But that doesn't mean you can't have signed a contract that said _all_
that you do is theirs.... I'd take it to a lawyer, that might even be
illegal in your country.

The place I work at tried to do that, but the boss I was under at the
time of my acquisition told me not to sign it, so I'd just stay with the
default.

Rui
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