Encoding your scripts, when?
Posted: Wed May 07, 2003 4:05 pm
Hello all,
I'm kind of new to the business of freelance programming and I was wondering...
If a client who owns a website hires you to write say, a seach engine and an HTML page generator from their DB. Do they own that code, since they hired you to build custom code? If you knew from talking to them once you started that they intended to hack your code and resuse it on their site, would you encode it to stop them from doing so?
Or if you put in your contract that all code remains your property would that justify your encoding it?
If you have any suggested sites that discuss this kind of thing I'd appreciate it.
Thanks,
- D
I'm kind of new to the business of freelance programming and I was wondering...
If a client who owns a website hires you to write say, a seach engine and an HTML page generator from their DB. Do they own that code, since they hired you to build custom code? If you knew from talking to them once you started that they intended to hack your code and resuse it on their site, would you encode it to stop them from doing so?
Or if you put in your contract that all code remains your property would that justify your encoding it?
If you have any suggested sites that discuss this kind of thing I'd appreciate it.
Thanks,
- D