My app is different but this might work. How about telling that you own the copyright but they have full rights to use / modify it for their own use but they can't take your code and start selling the app or selling your code.
Marc ----- Original Message ----- From: jan johansen To: RBASE-L Mailing List Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 8:27 AM Subject: [RBASE-L] - Code copywrite Group, Looking for some insights from people. I recently placed a copy of 7.6 on my clients server so they would feel better about "if something happened to me" someone else could pick up the pieces. They found what I have been placing in my rmd's at the top: -- Title: PurchaseRecon.rmd -- Comment: replaces old reconpur.cmd -- Created: Sep 2007 -- Author: Jan D. Johansen -- Copyright © 2007 Dane Data Systems -- Last Update -- Uses Forms: PurchReconSelect,reconpur Now they are upset because they thought they owned the code. In this case the code is somewhat hybrid. The original code was in 4.5 ++ (I think) and I have "borrowed" sections of the original code during the upgrade. I have found traces of at least 3 other people in the original. Of course I have rewritten sections and supplanted with my own and borrowed from other people on the list. The header was placed mainly as an afterthought in the rmd's without much thought to what it implied. So now - who owns the code? Is it the intellectual property of the developer or since the client pays you for your services is it his? I know I should have spelled this out in an agreement but didn't think I would run into anything like this (there I go thinking again). Any thoughts/comments greatly appreciated in advance (I'm offline for about 10 hours after I hit the send). Jan
