But I think that there is a difference between a regular company paying exorbitant salaries that has the IP and full control of their product and another "company" that his assets is Creative Commons and that can be "legally stole" (copied) by other one. It is good to put under the scope the executive staff salaries to make some preassure, but we also need to understand that the full wikipedia site can be copied and all their contents can used to create a similar site. I prefer an executives making money this way, than other companies that only hives you a limited right to use their content. On Wikipedia everybody owns the content to copy it and distribute it.

Even if they are sitting on money and over-expend it, all their content is Creative Commons, anybody can "Fork Wikipedia". The contribution to Wikipedia to the present days is still there and it is huge. It will be desirable that the extra money will be expended to enrich the content and not waste it, but if we compare how politicians use money today, I prefer that it is being waste on a collaborative open project. I really hope that the same thing happens to Archive.org someday, that they will be able to sit on money to improve the "library".

Only very skilled people can do that on create an empire of it. The DOS, IBM and Microsoft story is a good example.

Hi

There is a few options that came to my mind, but all of them requires that you sign an agreement with your boss/Company.

1) Ask for an agreement telling that both parties owns the right of the software and source code. Try to avoid any “Eternal” periods of time of confidentiality since you may not know what happens in more than 5 years. So if your boss asks you for confidentiality of the source code limit the time of it.

2) When you set an agreement about the ownership of the source code and software, there is a good wording on the “IBM Customer Agreement” (http://www-05.ibm.com/support/operations/files/pdf/ica_us.pdf). Read “6.2 Materials Ownership and License”

Read “Type I Materials” and “Type II Materials” on the Type I the company owns the rights and gives you “ irrevocable, nonexclusive, worldwide, paid-up license to use, execute, reproduce, display, perform, sublicense, distribute, and prepare derivative works based on, Type I Materials. “

On “Type II Materiales” you own al the rights and you give the rights to the company of “.an irrevocable, nonexclusive, worldwide, paid-up license to use, execute, reproduce, display, perform, and distribute (within Customer’s Enterprise only) copies of Type II Materials.”

3) Other alternative is, if you can get an agreement with your boss, is to make to dump that source code, and start a new one from scratch on your home under your own time.

But there is a lot more alternatives that goes in the middle, why don’t making a company on your own and give some stocks to you “boss/hiring company” as payment of the rights of the source code there are a lot of options. You just need to negotiate.

Good Luck. Regards.

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Don't use it in turtles.

Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering

I think that Wil Wheaton advice is also good for this kind of conflict situation:
https://dontbeadickday.com/

It even has a "simple chart" to explain it.