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    <p>By "indemnification", I assume they mean assurance that the code is free of copyright or patent or maybe trade secret encumbrance that they don't know about up front, or that somebody's willing to compensate them if something like that turns up. I've never been in a company that worried about this, nor have I heard of one before.</p> <p>It's not clear what you actually want here, other than sympathy (and I do have sympathy for people trapped in corporate foolishness). It sounds like the policy is quite rigid, if you're worried about sample code in books. This is a bad policy, and will hinder you, but I don't know what you can do about it. Unlike Joel's blog post on getting things done as a grunt, it sounds like you can't just start doing thing intelligently without being in clear violation of corporate policy.</p> <p>Not knowing your situation, my suggestion would be to look for another job. This one will definitely stifle your professional growth, and a company with that policy is unlikely to be reasonable about it.</p> <p>(It would be nice if you could assure them there was no danger, but that's not true. People have lied about copyrights, although open source projects tend not to, and only a fool would claim definitely that a large chunk of code did not infringe on any patents in the US; even if it was written a year before software patents were first awarded, that would be merely good grounds for a court fight, rather than avoiding a court fight. GPLed software is actually better than BSD software, since it requires some patent licensing downstream, but it can't deal with third-party patents. Of course, if they're that worried about being sued, writing in-house software is no solution. That can infringe on patents.)</p>
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    1. COYou are right about the indemnification. And probably about the sympathy part as well. ;-) I'm attempting a grunt movement and trying to educate. My first attempt is to take the policy literally (which makes it exclude books, blog posts, sample code, etc.) to show that it is way too restrictive.
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