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by PragmaticPulp 1389 days ago
> 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.

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Contractual obligations that go against the law are void. And it means that indeed, you are supposed to just ignore them.
Are you claiming that this specific contractual obligation is against the law?