[Phpwm] Who owns your code?

[Joseph Jabbar]

Both of your wise words have been duly noted.
 
I'll ask the client to let me have a copy of his existing contract before committing to the work.  
 
--Joseph

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From: phpwm-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk on behalf of Alex Mace
Sent: Thu 07/06/2007 13:54
To: West Midlands PHP User Group
Subject: Re: [Phpwm] Who owns your code?



As has been said, either way it should be covered by a contract. If you have
got someone giving you code you'll want to make sure that they're liable for
infringements, if there is potential for that...

Alex

On 07/06/07, David Edwards <revlob at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 07/06/07, joseph jabbar <joseph.jabbar at tic.ac.uk> wrote:
> >
> > > The answer lies in the contract between you and the client
> > > ............... You did agree a contract at the outset didn't you?
> >
> > Actually it's the other way round -- a potential client is coming to me
> with
> > existing code and I'm not sure he actually owns that code and really
> don't
> > want to get into copyright infringement (especially against the code of
> a
> > fellow php coder ;-)
>
> Shouldn't there be license information attached to that code? I would
> ask for any license details before even touching it.
>
> --
> Dave
>
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