On Monday, March 31, 2003, at 06:23 PM, Paul McNett wrote:
>> Because I developed it on their nickel. Technically, they
>> could
>> have prevented me from releasing it at all.
>
> Oh okay, they own the code... that's fine. I don't in general grant
> ownership of any code that I write, just a nonexclusive license to
> utilize
> it pretty much as they see fit. They pay me for my time, not for
> ownership
> of the code. Of course there are exceptions: trade secret stuff,
> proprietary stuff, that I'll transfer ownership over. But I probably
> wouldn't grant ownership over anything that can be utilized in a
> general
> manner in lots of projects (framework-level code, for example).
They don't own the code; I do. However, it could have fallen under
NDA, since (in their opinion) knowing the internals of vRunFox could
make it easier for someone to use it to hack their system, and
potentially expose them.
I don't think that that's the case, but when dealing with clients, I
always error on the side of safety when it comes to their data and
their trust.
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