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by jitendrac 1553 days ago
If possible, make it opensource with AGPL license and invite few friends to send some initial contribution, viola now you are not the only one who owns all the IPs, also your employer will be most probably stay away from it due to licensing requirements of opensourcing all the changes made. Alternatively you can create a project with your friend as main owner and contribute to it with same AGPL license. You can also contribute to it as an anonymous contributor. flip side is you will have to get explicit full ownership of the code with MIT/BSD/WTFPL type license via documented way(verified Email works fine).
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kube-system 1552 days ago
You can't license code you don't own to others, if in fact, you don't own it.
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jitendrac 1552 days ago
Yes you can, if owner(All owners with code contributions) gives you full ownership explicitly. Find contributors section on open-source projects like mysql, they only accepts pull accepts with dual licensing. also, you can use WTFPL. You get it, you own it.
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kube-system 1552 days ago
The OP says they have:

> signed an assignments clause

Only the entity with a copyright to a work can license it.

If that assignment clause is valid for this work, then whoever they assigned it to (i.e. their employer) has the right to license it.

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