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<body><div style="font-family:Arial;">Hi Spencer and Michael,<br></div>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">My employer owns the copyright for anything that I do on their equipment or during the workday.<br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;">They could own the copyright for those parts of BioJava.<br></div>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">However, they might be interested in not being the copyright holder (which can open them up to <br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;">a lawsuit if I was to copy someone else's work blah blah blah). That however (as I understand it) <br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;">is changing my employment agreement to allow for me to contribute to BioJava as me in this case.<br></div>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">I've carved out exceptions to the "we own you" clause that in the past. I can go that route.<br></div>
<div>I might reach out to another past BioJava contributor that worked at the same place.<br></div>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">Thank you!<br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;">-brian<br></div>
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<div>From: Spencer Bliven <<a href="mailto:spencer.bliven@gmail.com">spencer.bliven@gmail.com</a>><br></div>
<div>To: Michael Heuer <<a href="mailto:heuermh@gmail.com">heuermh@gmail.com</a>><br></div>
<div>Cc: Brian Repko <<a href="mailto:brian.repko@learnthinkcode.com">brian.repko@learnthinkcode.com</a>>, "biojava-dev" <<a href="mailto:biojava-dev@biojava.org">biojava-dev@biojava.org</a>><br></div>
<div>Subject: Re: [Biojava-dev] Contributor License Agreement?<br></div>
<div>Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2016 10:34:15 +0100<br></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:Arial;">Many of the contributors do so as part of their work. Is there an issue that your company would claim copyright for your contributions? I don't see this as being a problem (after all, it's LGPL). If you want I guess we could create an agreement whereby you assign copyright for your contributions to OBF (biojava's parent organization), thereby not creating any IP for your company.<br></div>
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<div>-Spencer<br></div>
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<div defang_data-gmailquote="yes"><div style="font-family:Arial;">On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 9:28 PM, Michael Heuer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:heuermh@gmail.com">heuermh@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">I don't believe we have one. For copyright the license states<br></div>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">"Copyright for this code is held jointly by the individual authors."<br></div>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;"> michael<br></div>
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<div defang_data-gmailquote="yes"><div><div>On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 2:14 PM, Brian Repko <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brian.repko@learnthinkcode.com">brian.repko@learnthinkcode.<wbr>com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div>
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<div><div style="font-family:Arial;">BioJava team:<br></div>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">I'm looking for the Corporate Contributor License Agreement for BioJava.<br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;">Can anyone point me to that?<br></div>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">I need to have that signed in order to be able to use company time / resources for BioJava contributions.<br></div>
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