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In article <1991May18.224337.17787@ccad.uiowa.edu> cadsi@ccad.uiowa.edu (CADSI) writes:
>From article <tmasune.0853@telstr.UUCP>, by tmasune@telstr.UUCP (Ted Masune):
>> I have a question for all you prgrammers out their that sell
>> your customized programs to businesses.  I was contracted
>> verbally to a business to do some customized programming for
>
>You only need look at your contract with your customer.  If the deliverables
>were source code, then you diliver source.  If your deliverables are
>executable modules, thats what they get.  It is probably not clear what
>your deliverables were and your customer wants to get what they can.
>Indeed, you should have copyright'ed your source code.  If the code is
>your copyright, it is yours and you do with it as you please, they don't.
>

You typically trade all rights to your code when you get paid. Of course,
royalties and source code ownership must be negotiated up front and put into
contractual form.

If you write software under contract then the copyright is typically owned
by the company who hired you, UNLESS specified different up front.

	...Martin


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