closed-source bounties (was Re: [Asterisk-Dev] US$200 bounty for * paging feature)

[Andrew Kohlsmith]

On April 19, 2005 07:21 pm, Steven wrote:
> > . close source and we own the code.
>
> Guess what, not allowed. As soon as a person writes it and distributes
> it to you, it is covered by GPL and can not be held private.

Are you sure about that?  If I'm hired as a contract for Company Foo, I am 
certainly not distributing the code that I write for them to them; I am in 
their employ and as such I am pretty sure that this is allowed.

-A.