Google can claim rights over code that its employees write for outside projects, and former Googlers say this policy 'could potentially put' other projects at risk (GOOG, GOOGL)

· *According to Google's policy, *it can own intellectual property and code that employees write, even if it's for outside projects.
· If Googlers want to retain rights over their code, they have to go through an approval process.
· Former Googlers say the long process keeps them from contributing to the open source...