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I am doing this right now. The point, I believe is, that you spend the most productive part of the day working for yourself rather than for your employer. Still, I believe in certain jurisdictions your employer owns your work even if done in your free time.



Your employer should only own your work outside of work hours only if you have a non-compete, is directly related to the work you perform, is derivative of code that you access from work, or you indentured all of your code contractually.

Anybody know if a GPL versus "we own everything you do" situation has arisen yet in the courts?


I think it has more to do with the document you signed when you started than where you live.


Not really. Some states ban or almost completely prohibit non-competes -- California being a notable example:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-compete_clause#Exceptions_-...




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