Jochen, What if you just restore to the pre-maintenance state and just move on?
On Jul 27, 10:48 am, Jochen Daum <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm looking for experiences with the following problem: > > we're distributing most of our code under open source licences to clients > and I wonder if anyone has had experiences with the following scenario: > > - Project get developed and delivered under open source licence to client on > clients server > - Later, a round of maintenance is developed and rolled out to the clients > staging server. > - Clients disputes nature of maintenance request and withholds payment > > Now, normally we have a clause in our contract that we withhold the licence > of source code until it is paid. I found a similar clause in Egressive's > contract > here:http://www.phpug.org.nz/index.php/Business_Terms_and_Conditionsand our > own > contract has pretty much an identical clause: > > "3.1 The Supplier, subject to payment in full of all owing, grants the > Purchaser a non-exclusive licence in respect of all pre-existing material of > the Supplier, which comprises the Agreement Type upon completion of The > Project , ..." > > But after completion of the maintenance we would have distributed open > source code already? > > Do I need to keep code on my own staging server at all times to get around > this? > > Kind Regards, > > Jochen Daum > > Chief Automation Officer > Automatem Ltd > > Phone:09 630 3425 > Mobile:021 567 853 > Email: [email protected] > Skype: jochendaum > Website:www.automatem.co.nzhttp://twitter.com/automatemhttp://www.xing.com/go/invite/3425509.181107 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
