Keep your code under subversion, and guarantee only your code. Tell them also that any "release" will not include modifications out of SVN.
So, keep controled your sourcecode (SVN = who, when, why) and guarantee only your work. Responsabilize the (evil) client. Good luck, 2009/11/17 Gareth McCumskey <gmccums...@gmail.com> > One way to do it is to design "your" CMS in such a way that any customer > additions can be totally isolated plugins on top of your base of code. That > way you can provide tghe solution to your customer with full rights to the > plugin that was specifically developed for them and keep your CMS > proprietary with whatever licence you decide. There are also ways to > obfuscate or "encode" your own code to disallow editing of "your" CMS > portion and leave the customer-specific code open for them to edit as they > wish. > > > On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 8:09 PM, Richtermeister <nex...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> Hi all, >> >> our company is slowly shifting from selling "all custom" websites to >> websites built on symfony + our own set of CMS plugins, and the >> question of code ownership is starting to come up. >> >> Traditionally we simply said that the client buys the entire site >> including code and is free to do whatever with it. That was usually no >> issue, because each sites was different and there were no "company >> assets" included. >> >> With the new approach this obviously changes a big, and we were >> wondering how / if other companies out there handle this issue. For >> example, we're not concerned what our immediate client do with the >> delivered code, but we're wondering what happens when they change to a >> different web company, and that company decides to build sites with >> "our" cms. >> >> Thanks for feedback, >> Daniel >> >> >> > > > -- > Gareth McCumskey > http://garethmccumskey.blogspot.com > twitter: @garethmcc > > > > > -- Alexandre Salomé -- alexandre.sal...@gmail.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "symfony users" group. To post to this group, send email to symfony-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to symfony-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/symfony-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---