On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 05:57:04PM +1300, Arron Hart wrote: > Hi all > > Can anyone help me - I'm so confussed. Whe I was a student I wrote a > program that just works great. A company I now deal with wants to buy it > (it took me about a year to get it right) but I can't figure out if I'm > allowed to sell it since it's in perl.
You may or not not be allowed to sell it, but that depends on other factors then whether it's been written in Perl or not. Unless your program uses code whose license prohibits selling (a few modules on CPAN do), there should not be a problem. Neither the AL, nor the GPL ([Pp]erl is dual licensed under AL and GPL) prohibit selling. > Some people have told me that I can't, others say I'd be selling the IP not > the code... I don't know. Any ideas? That depends on the agreement you make with the company. It's certainly possible to sell the rights to the code - but that usually costs more than selling the right to use the program. Abigail
