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GitHub's employee intellectual property agreement, open sourced and reusable
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Copyright infringement by employee under BEIPA #58

Closed GnorTech closed 7 years ago

GnorTech commented 7 years ago

I believe GitHub employee @zcbenz 's work on libyue is bound with BEIPA so I'm raise the issue here.

What if employee violates copyright laws when he/she is doing work under BEIPA? Does the document say anything about this? Should the employer be responsible for the violation if they get sued? It would be better if the FAQ section could include this.

@zcbenz clearly violates copyright laws in his work, see the issue and Hacker News discussion

Note that he also did this in the past in work time for GitHub official project Electron, see the complaint here: https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/5172#issuecomment-210697670

CC @hoolio @mlinksva @defunkt @nathansobo

jessephus commented 7 years ago

We aren't going to comment on internal company matters.