[plug] Software License Evaluation

[Onno Benschop]

On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 15:28, Leon Blackwell wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 03:20:12PM +1000, Onno Benschop wrote:
> >      7. I can continue to derive income from the sale of the
> >         application
> 
> Note that this is only applicable to the portions of the code that you
> have written.  Contributions from other parties (including your client)
> will still belong to them; therefore, you can not sell the application
> if it includes their IP.

Uhm how do you figure. There is nothing in the GPL that says I cannot
sell code. There is nothing that is stopping me from making a copy of
Linux and selling it to you.


> I have always been very careful to declare who owns what at the start of
> a project, as some clients would rather they owned anything produced
> while you are under their employ.

I'm never under the employ of my clients. I own everything. If I were
under their employ, they'd be contributing to my super, withholding
taxes and providing me with a group certificate.

Onno Benschop 

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