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?

// EDIT: My contract is not totally strict, it refers to applicable laws and the wording is something like ‘knowledge gained through company activities belong to the company’, which is probably intentionally vague. Also: i like my job and employer and they are open to FOSS. My only concern is whether some higherups might disagree at a later point which is why i want to get the wording right. Will not spend money on a lawyer - it’s not that important to me. Thanks for sharing your experiences so far.

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[–] noughtnaut@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

I've never had a contract that didn't say that. I always pushed back. Without exception, the response was that hobby projects and open spar stuff is fiiine as long as you don't use company machines, time, resources, or compete with their market.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 2 points 4 months ago

Unfortunately that's what they want to do, they obviously know it's wrong otherwise they wouldn't have hidden that nugget in another comment.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 months ago

you really might want to proofread your comments