Apple engineer in need of OSS maintainers
While not employed at Apple, I too have a clause in my employment contract (UK) that states I &quot;assign copyright and IP rights produced by me in the course of my employment, whether during normal hours of business or otherwise, or at the premises or using company facilities or otherwise&quot;. I was told by my manager that I need to notify them if I plan to contribute&#x2F;create an open source project, and even had one open source project I created get claimed by the company since I used it for one of my work tasks even though I created it for personal use initially, in my personal time, because &quot;I could not prove that I developed it independently of my company work needs&quot; and was told &quot;if you don&#x27;t like this then why are you still working here&quot;.<p>What I want to know is how exactly do you go about getting that part of you contract removed so you own copyright and IP for work you do on your free time without the need to justify it to your employer?<p>I tried speaking with my company&#x27;s legal department and they slightly re-worded the contract to say the same thing (basically lied to me as later my project&#x27;s ownership was claimed), all my managers so far did not take me seriously and basically ignored my request to change&#x2F;remove this clause, or told me they would approve anything and it would be open source anyway (another lie as my project was taken) to the point I gave up, reduced my OSS contributions greatly and only worked on things I confirmed previously were OK for me to do, which added a lot of useless bureaucracy and got me demotivated.<p>The only thing I can come up with was quitting my job after I negotiate with another employer to not have such a clause in my contract. But I have not done any interviewing yet, so I don&#x27;t know if that is even possible.<p>Any ideas&#x2F;hints&#x2F;help would be greatly appreciated!