Hello all!
Sorry for writing in English but it is much better than my Swedish.
I have some questions regarding the Zope license[1] which is GPL compatible.
Company A uses a Zope Application Server to serve web pages and an administrative interface to those web pages. Company B hires Company A to build a web shop. Company B signs contract stipulating that they own the data form the database, user interface elements, and design of the web shop which is built in Zope. Company B wants to develop the web shop in house after the contract runs out with Company A.
Does Company B have the right to the source code? Or is it legal for Company A to claim that the source code, which is mostly Zope methods and Zope DTML, has to be purchased?
Thanks for your expert opinions.
Jeremiah Foster
This might be obsolete by now? I'm trying to work my way through the last few weeks e-mail... ;-)
The ZPL seems to be a very simple, non-copyleft, license that does not require you to provide source code for any modifications that you make. So, unless companies A and B have regulated this issue in their contract (which I would have advised them to do ;-) ), I would say that Company A owns the copyrights to whatever they have developed and can license them to Company B on arbitrary terms.
/Kalle
On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 01:58:56PM +0100, Jeremiah Foster wrote:
Hello all!
Sorry for writing in English but it is much better than my Swedish.
I have some questions regarding the Zope license[1] which is GPL compatible.
Company A uses a Zope Application Server to serve web pages and an administrative interface to those web pages. Company B hires Company A to build a web shop. Company B signs contract stipulating that they own the data form the database, user interface elements, and design of the web shop which is built in Zope. Company B wants to develop the web shop in house after the contract runs out with Company A.
Does Company B have the right to the source code? Or is it legal for Company A to claim that the source code, which is mostly Zope methods and Zope DTML, has to be purchased?
Thanks for your expert opinions.
Jeremiah Foster
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