OSS is a mess in EU. In Germany, signing a FTE contract also entails implicitly that, if I produce something over the weekends, my employer has legal power to claim it as their IP. If I probably contribute something to some open-source project, my employer can also claim royalty of that too. While there are not much precedents of these happening, the legal rights remain. Also, non-compete is implicit too. Also, gener…
That must be Germany-specific because I don't think that's universal. As far as I know, anything I write in my free time is mine, unless maybe my employer can prove it's directly related to my work for them. And most companies I worked for were very supportive of open source, one of them actively involved in several Apache projects and employing committers for several projects, on top of releasing their own software…
No clue if it holds up in court though.