[NesiG93vXQiSM8j]

> For example, if you sign an NDA with a company covering the work and then turn around and send the codebase to a contractor in Romania to work on it, you've very clearly violated the terms of the NDA.

I find that unlikely. What if you were instead handing it to an employee?

(Also, different NDAs are... different, it's pretty tough to talk about them all in general and expect a statement to be true.)

> So no, the law doesn't automatically allow engineering contractors to do whatever they want with the work.

Yes, it does. Just because you might have terms in a contract prohibiting it doesn't mean the law prohibits it.

[PragmaticPulp]

> I find that unlikely. What if you were instead handing it to an employee?

> (Also, different NDAs are... different, it's pretty tough to talk about them all in general and expect a statement to be true.)

If you sign a contract that says you're not going to share the company's code and then you share the company's code, you've violated the NDA. It's as simple as that.

Being a contractor doesn't grant someone magical immunity to the contracts they've signed. At most, the employee could argue that the contract made them a full-time employee and sue for benefits and such. They can't, however, simply ignore contractual obligations that they've agreed to.

[trasz]

Contractual obligations that go against the law are void. And it means that indeed, you are supposed to just ignore them.

[CogitoCogito]

Are you claiming that this specific contractual obligation is against the law?