[Phpwm] Who owns your code?

[Phil Beynon]

> It would be interesting to know exactly what the legal standpoint is on
> 'intellectual property rights'. I imagine that the same question arises
> if you want to use the same code for a different client...
>
> My take on it would be that, as the customer paid for your time to
> develop the code they own what you have supplied and can amend it as
> they see fit. As you have developed the code you can re-create and
> distribute as you see fit, unless the client has specifically requested
> that you do not do this, in which case I would increase the cost of the
> work provided :oP
>

Most of my sites are driven by various flavours of my in-house Coeus CMS, so
as far as I'm concerned that never passes into a customers ownership, and
the customer is informed of that. The data / text / images in the database
is theirs, as is the public side of the site that was designed specifically
for them.

Phil