Contract: protecting code or not?
| From: | Anne Shroeder | Date: | Wed, 06 Oct 2004 00:56:10 +0000 |
| Subject: | Contract: protecting code or not? | ||
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I just started a project for which I need to do both database design and
some original programming work. My client would like to draw up an
agreement that specifies what usage is permissable for the code I develop.
Apparently one of the staff people thought that if the program is very cool
(it had better be, but it will be a lot of work!) they could resell it, and
my client said she thought that was not right.
I'm doing this in PHP - so I'll be using some code snippets of my own, some
open source libraries, and doing some original development. It would seem
to me that it's ok for my client to reuse some of my code, in the spirit of
open source? But that it wouldn't be right to resell the whole product.
So my qustions are:
(1) How do you all define this
(2) Where can I find wording to say what I need that will protect my work.
(3) I want to include a confidentiality agreement stating that all data from
her DB will remain private. - need wording for that too!
Anne