[thelist] Copyright ownership under LGPL
Edwin Martin
edwin at bitstorm.org
Tue Jun 15 02:41:11 CDT 2004
David Bindel wrote:
> My potential client will not accept anything less than full legal
> ownership/copyright in order to:
>
> 1) avoid "copyright problems"
This is nonsense. You're probably not allowed to use PHP
either, because you'll be using PHP-functions which he
doesn't own. Every website uses software which is somebody
elses property.
> 2) avoid "subsidizing" the development of future websites in which I
> might reuse code that I used in his website
Strange. He thinks that if he buys Windows XP he is not
subsidizing the development of Longhorn or even the next
version of the X-Box?
> 3) ensure that his website is "one of a kind" (as far as internal PHP
> code goes)
It looks like he doesn't know the economics of software.
Give him two proposals: your initial proposal and his
proposal, which is ten times more expensive.
Edwin Martin.
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