Greg- >> Your question doesn't make sense to me. If your clients pay you to >> develop source code that derives from, or partially incorporates, GPL >> licensed code then they own the developed source, not you. They are >> responsible for license issues with the newly developed code. > > This is getting way off topic, but this is incorrect (assuming we are > talking in the US). Look up the "work for hire" doctrine in copyright > law. Absent a written agreement, the general notion is the clients do > not hold copyright, but employers do. > > sort of on topic: This is why the FSF asks for a disclaimer from > employers that code is not within the scope of employment. My GNU Radio > changes, and that of my project team, are assigned to FSF, but the > assignment is from BBN since those were changes made by employees (and > done "within the scope of employment").
I was assuming a development contract that specified the client received all rights to the code for which they paid for development. All good points that you make. Thanks. I should have made my assumption clear. -Jeff _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio