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
>
>
> >
>


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