I\'m an intern working for a company for the summer. I\'ve been warmly received

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I'm an intern working for a company for the summer. I've been warmly received and I manage to impress my manager a lot (I guess I'm more experienced than the other people he interviewed). Recently I've been developing a kiosk type application which will generate a simple GUI menu from a text config file a 4 year old could write.

I love the project and it has become my baby. However, in the corporate world, whatever you develop for your employer...becomes theirs (or so I've heard). I would really love to be able to keep on working on the project after the summer and I would also want to open source it.

How would I go about asking for this? The code doesn't have any company secrets and most of the people here advocate open sourced software.

Explanation / Answer

Your success depends on a number of factors, but if the company tends to advocate open source software you are probably already at an advantage. However, don't be surprised if you hear "no".

Alternatively your company may choose to open source it themselves. That means they still retain they copyright and they dictate the terms for licensing, but all other aspects of open source should still apply.

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