This particular repo is maintained by IBM, though.

If I work for a bakery, bake a cake at home, and come put it in the display cooler at work, they might have issues with that.

I dunno, does your bakery need that cake? Are your tools at home equal or better than the ones in your office?

There’s more to that than the simple example you give.

> There’s more to that than the simple example you give.

It's likely "You are an IBM employee 100% of the time" has a similarly complex backstory.

> I dunno, does your bakery need that cake? Are your tools at home equal or better than the ones in your office?

Ultimately, if the bakery explicitly says "stop putting your personal shit in the work display", you obey or be fired. Even if it's a better cake, or your at-home tools are better.

If you burn yourself and go to the emergency room is it worker's comp?

How would this play out if you were a baker?

It would work fine, bakers are allowed to cook at home.

The analogy is a little fraught. If a baker bakes at home it's ostensibly not for public consumption. If you work at IBM you could literally code at home too.

This is more like a baker baking things at home, and giving them away for free under their own shingle. That still lacks the nuance of software scalability and licensing but it's a little closer.

What about the baker baking at home and then selling his cake? Selling it to potential/ex customers of the bakery?

Was the source code in question sold?

No, it was given out for free, so competitors can take it and put it into their products for free.