On Thu, 8 Jan 2026 at 16:16, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
On Thu, Jan 8, 2026 at 04:14:08PM +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote: > On Fri, 2 Jan 2026 at 19:47, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 31, 2025 at 02:17:10PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > I don't know if things are improving and we can ignore the issue, or if > > there is some action that can be taken. Ideas are: > > > > * New employees should read employment contracts and ideally have them > > reviewed by an employment lawyer. It might be difficult, but not > > being able to find a suitable job for a year is clearly worse. > > > > * Somehow incentivize companies to limit their non-compete restrictions > > to be more limited, and hopefully not block community involvement. > > I think a question is whether it is wise for the community to be > influencing how companies specify compete restrictions in their > employment contracts. Even if the community were successful in making > changes that are positive for employees, is this an overreach for the > community? > > An idea would be to allow companies to voluntarily submit their > non-compete clauses to the community for approval to be listed on some > community fair-employment page. Would any company do that? > > Regardless of whether the companies would, I think that's a really bad idea. It > would amount to us giving what would potentially be seen as legal advice in > basically all different jurisdictions around the world. We should definitely > not get into that. > > Having some generic recommendations for either not having non-compete clauses > or explicitly excluding OSS contributions from it is reasonable, but we don't > want to review any actual texts IMNSHO.
I was thinking we would allow them to be posted publicly, rather than us reviewing them, though it seems even less likely they would do this.
Oh, just like a list of them basically? "If you go to work for <x> here's what it might look like" but with no judging or comments from the community?
Yeah, I think that's very unlikely that companies will be interested in that. And even if they are, I bet they wouldn't update them as their templates change anyway...
