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When you are under employment contract, the code you write during office hours is usually ''owned'' by those paying your salary, unless your contract ''explicitly'' says otherwise.
In some countries{{which}}, a working contract could encompass ''all the work you do in a certain field of knowledge, as long as the contract is valid, and sometimes even beyond that''. That means that, if you are hired to write code at day, the code you write after office hours at home might ''also'' be legal property of your employer, the reasoning being that, since your employer
This might sound strange to you, outrageous even. But you really should have a talk with your superior. At best, your superior will see that you really are a dedicated software engineer, happy about having such an enthusiastic individual under contract, and tell you to go ahead with your spare-time project. At worst, you will be told that you cannot work on that project - ''before'' you have churned out 10k lines of source code and been sued by your employer.
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