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FOSS user:
Wants to improve the software and sees easy fixes, but isn't allowed to create a Merge Request because company policy disallows you from writing code for other projects on company time
Good luck with them holding that up in court. Just do it on your own hardware and you're good to go
I don't really code in my free time, every merge request for a FOSS project I wanted to do so far was for company projects where a feature was missing or buggy. My GitHub and Gitlab accounts are full of outdated forks we needed for a minor change in the FOSS project which I was not allowed to merge upstream
I had that situation for several years. I skipped to a pro-opensource organization, and have never looked back. The coolest part is I have commits accepted to some big name projects now, which I figure is part of why nobody asks me to write fizz-buzz in an interview anymore.
If I am not using my eployers hardware, they could easily argue that I am not working, so I guess it would need to be done in my free time. And why would I spend my free time to develop a project I need at work?
Not submitting the pull request until off work hours (maybe a hour or two after the shift whistle blows) would also be a good story to show the court.