Ask HN: My company wants me to give up my own code / utilities is that legal?
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You ask "Is this legal?"
I ask, "Where?"
Because jurisdiction matters. A lot. Another big question would be whether you developed these utilities on your own time (again: jurisdiction matters!) or on the company's time.
As it stands your question is basically unanswerable.
I ask, "Where?"
Because jurisdiction matters. A lot. Another big question would be whether you developed these utilities on your own time (again: jurisdiction matters!) or on the company's time.
As it stands your question is basically unanswerable.
If you develop software on company time for the purpose of doing your job you will have a hard time claiming that this is not company property (maybe not your current employer if you started in previous jobs).
I wrote these utilities not on company time but my own time. I automate a lot of stuff since I also did a lot of AWS consulting.
Did you develop them on company time?
Do you use or contribute to OSS? If so, then i'm confused why you think sharing it within you company would be a problem?
Do you use or contribute to OSS? If so, then i'm confused why you think sharing it within you company would be a problem?
These are utilities that have grown through time a provide a lot of value for me but i don't feel comfortable sharing this. Is my employer allowed to ask me to submit this code and give it to them so that other engineers can use it and probably i have to then support it. ?