I'm not aware of any implicit abandonement of copyright (here in Germany). That's why I plaster the source code of the in house software with copyright notices including my name, in the absence of any copyright assignment in the company. There was no objection on the managers side and it also came up once. I guess I could even release it as free software, but I'd rather do this after negotiation with the managers and for most parts but basic infrastructure it would entail some work to make it generally useful. (I give back to upstream as much as possible, though)
And there I thought I could spend a few hours with sleep, and directly the copyright abusers strike again! It's Friday, so a leisure day at work. Time to ramp up the volume to the MEP mailboxes.
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Re: Actual history of copyright
I'm not aware of any implicit abandonement of copyright (here in Germany). That's why I plaster the source code of the in house software with copyright notices including my name, in the absence of any copyright assignment in the company. There was no objection on the managers side and it also came up once. I guess I could even release it as free software, but I'd rather do this after negotiation with the managers and for most parts but basic infrastructure it would entail some work to make it generally useful. (I give back to upstream as much as possible, though)
And there I thought I could spend a few hours with sleep, and directly the copyright abusers strike again! It's Friday, so a leisure day at work. Time to ramp up the volume to the MEP mailboxes.