Questions regarding either legal ownership of code or taking responsibility for code within a project.
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Who owns code if project cancelled
The problem: I am working on a freelance marketplace, and I decided to cancel project with one of my clients, because client is impossible to work with with limitless delays and lots of bugs in his ...
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Wrote an application for a friend. Who is the owner of the software? [closed]
Friend asked me to develop a software application for him. I did and he paid me.
There was no written contract. I live in UK and he resides in Canada.
My question is: who is the owner of the software ...
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What constitutes a programming language and how does one copyright a programming language?
I've decided to create a programming language of my own, mostly just for fun. However, I got interested in the legal aspect of it all.
You can, for example, licence specific programs under specific ...
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What exactly does the condition in the MIT license imply?
To quote the license itself:
Copyright (C) [year] [copyright holders]
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
a copy of this software and associated ...
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Does Fred Brooks' “Surgical Team” effectively handle the bus factor?
My team of 4 experienced developers works on a large, modular Windows application (approx. 200 KLoC). I have focused on the core codebase since the beginning of the project (3 years ago) and have ...
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Unwritten rules of rewriting another team member's code
We are practicing collective code ownership. To my understanding this means that any developer can change any line of code to add functionality, to refactor, fix bugs or improve designs.
But what ...
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Code ownership: What should I do when a dev leaves or team splits?
There are multiple ways of tracking code ownership (i.e., collective, team or individual).
In case of team or individual ownership, how do you:
track ownership?
deal with situations when dev leaves ...
