Full Disclosure Agreement

Prologue

Whereas in the course of my programming career I have had to choose between signing a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) or not working a particular job, I have noted in many cases that employers seem to:

• believe that they and only they have Intellectual Property (IP) worth protecting,
• think that the programming work I'm going to perform for them will be unique, having no trace of code that I've written before and nothing that I will ever use again;
• want to prevent my ever working for a similar company, or doing similar work, or reusing code from my own libraries that I applied to solve their problem;

I have written this Full Disclosure Agreement (FDA) as an alternative. Hiring me for a particular job implies consent to the terms of this FDA.