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by __MatrixMan__ 29 days ago
Has that ever happened?

I'd be surprised if there was any actual burden on the upstream maintainer to care whether I was on my lunch break or whether I was on the clock when I made the fix.

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The highest profile recent case that I can find is Rambler vs Igor Sysoev on the development of Nginx.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21771144

Although in this particular case, I tend to agree with Igor as he was employed as a system administrator not a software developer so it's unlikely that there were any real contractual constraints imposed on him in relation to copyright or invention transfer.