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tumidpandora on April 7, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Show HN: I open-sourced the in-memory PostgreSQL I...

Off-topic, but the title confused me a bit - "...I built at work." Doesn't this imply that the intellectual property for this project belongs to your employer, assuming you used resources from work? If so, are you technically allowed to open-source it?

n2d4 on April 8, 2024 | [–]

We're a startup, open-sourcing was as easy as getting the rest of the team's approval.

Gracana on April 7, 2024 | [–]

Stackframe owns the repo and the LICENSE file says "Copyright 2024 Stackframe." I think the author works at Stackframe.

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