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> The contracting agreement will have provisions about who can access the site, how they get approved, on what terms, and so on.

I would definitely expect all of that to be handled by the primary contractor (i.e. the person who specializes in construction sites). No?

> For example, if you sign an NDA with a company covering the work and then turn around and send the codebase to a contractor in Romania to work on it, you've very clearly violated the terms of the NDA.

I find that unlikely. What if you were instead handing it to an employee?

(Also, different NDAs are... different, it's pretty tough to talk about them all in general and expect a statement to be true.)

> So no, the law doesn't automatically allow engineering contractors to do whatever they want with the work.

Yes, it does. Just because you might have terms in a contract prohibiting it doesn't mean the law prohibits it.

If I recall correctly, this was actually default behavior of one of the multi-IM clients at one point (maybe GAIM?).