copyright policy for employees
Tor has traditionally used MIT-like licenses for code generated in the project, but there is not, as far as I know, an actual defined policy for this.
Furthermore, TPI workers can find themselves in a situation where they collaborate over existing projects and might have to accept writing code under another license.
Finally, by default in certain jurisdiction (e.g. in Canada), work produced by an employee or a contractor is owned by the corporation, not the individual. This implies that workers might unknowingly commit a copyright violation if they reuse their own code outside of the company, which is something we should at the very least warn our employees about, if we're not enforcing a copyright policy.
There should be a policy for employees that defines what license is acceptable or not, and who is assigned copyright of works produced by employees and contractors.
We have already discussed this on the "vegas team" in October 2019, but progress has stalled sometime before the end of 2019, for obvious reasons. the next step here is to summarize that conversation (first message-id is <20191015133412.GO2661@moria.seul.org>
, last
proposal might <20191212225223.GE5317@moria.seul.org>
) and see if we can come up with a first draft of a proposal.