Re:Ask HN: A company wants to pay me to write open-source code
by rurban on Thursday March 11, 2021 @01:24AM
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I worked like that for several years. It was perfect.
Take their contract and strike out all the wrong terms and conditions. Easier than coming up with your own. Their lawyers are probably completely incompetent. Coming to terms with them would be much easier with just striking out their wrongs. Eg they will certainly not agree on the general "Company agrees that the code will remain open-source and retains no ownership". They paid for so it's their copyright. But under your copyright terms. So they will get their copyright line added, but under a open source license.
Second, the here cited sponsor or bounty programs will not work good enough, compared to what the company offers you. Like factor 1000. Unless you got 100.000 stars and over 2.000 sponsors stay with the company offer.
Take their contract and strike out all the wrong terms and conditions. Easier than coming up with your own. Their lawyers are probably completely incompetent. Coming to terms with them would be much easier with just striking out their wrongs. Eg they will certainly not agree on the general "Company agrees that the code will remain open-source and retains no ownership". They paid for so it's their copyright. But under your copyright terms. So they will get their copyright line added, but under a open source license.
Second, the here cited sponsor or bounty programs will not work good enough, compared to what the company offers you. Like factor 1000. Unless you got 100.000 stars and over 2.000 sponsors stay with the company offer.