I want to create a hobby project and release it under MIT. I work as a developer professionally and i have some clauses in my employment contract that gives any IP to my employer. My employer is open to amending these and/or adding exceptions for specific projects. Can anyone point to guidance resources on how to formulate such exceptions properly?

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  • jokeyrhyme@lemmy.ml
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    10 days ago

    No, unfortunately

    We (staff) asked for this, or some similar change to our contracts, and leadership refused

    Our contracts/agreements currently state that any IP created in the course of doing our jobs or involving any employer-supplied equipment belongs to the employer

    Leadership says they won’t enforce this for dotfiles and other small personal non-competing code, but they also refuse to put that in writing :S

    That said, most of us have tweaked our dotfiles, etc on work laptops for years and we’ve never had problems, so far leadership has kept their word