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August 04, 2004
Post code, trash export license
Someone blogging for Sun wrote to an internal alias to ask about posting a Perl script written to HTMLize results of a SQL query. It turns out Sun employees put Sun's US export license at risk if they carelessly post even trivial code that somehow legally threatens whatever it is that puts a company's US export license at risk. As an employee, "Any code you write is subject to US export restrictions and Sun's export license hangs in the balance."
Not only does my employer own the thoughts occurring in my head, but my employer also has to review those thoughts before I share them, lest it lose the right to do international business. If I hadn't worked in software for the last few years, I'd be surprised at how much of a mess we've gotten ourselves into.
Posted by Mark at August 4, 2004 09:19 AM