Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
On 20.03.2014 11:25, Allen Yan wrote:
Hi, David, When at AsusTek Suzhou, my work is mainly responsible for bios porting and fixing bug.
Do I understand it correctly, that you've had access to proprietary BIOS code? If so which papers did you sign and under what license did you get them?
Vladimir, I would assume that Jinyi signed a standard employment agreement. Employment agreements contain a non-disclure clause which covers all non-public information which the employer has received from suppliers and customers.
Depending on the answers it may partially or fully disqualify you from contributing to coreboot.
I disagree, and I think your tone is rude.
Please be supportive of GSoC candidates who are showing an interest in coreboot, especially candidates such as Jinyi who can obviously contribute with significant relevant experience from the firmware domain.
Employment agreements have clauses about not working on competing products. coreboot in summer of 2014 does not compete with BIOS for commercial mainboards in 2008. I am obviously not a lawyer but I can not see a problem here.
//Peter