Employer (Google?) forbids contributions to some open-source projects

Appears that he works for Apple now.

If I remember correctly, as part of Apple's employment contract, employees are restricted from contributing code to open source projects.

dgrin91 5y ago ↗

This is not uncommon for bigcorps. Could be many reasons for this, including licensing, competition, or fear of data leakage.

Bit surprising for this to come from Google though.

lostmsu 5y ago ↗

This would make sense for larger infrastructural projects. But for a single feature extension to a command line shell?

jsnell 5y ago ↗

Google's policies on this are public: https://opensource.google/docs/patching/

heavyset_go 5y ago ↗

This is unfortunate. An employer deciding what projects you can contribute to on your own time and with your own resources seems like an overstep to me.

[dead] warrenq 5y ago ↗

Anyone can claim to work for Google in any of the Social sites.

Also, nobody but small potatoes use the term 'employer'. They usually use the term company/firm

Employer (Google?) forbids contributions to some open-source projects (github.com)

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