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Services: Source Code
"source code" (sôrs kôd)
noun.
A system of rules and symbols representing instructions to a computer.
Source code must be converted to machine language before a computer can execute the program.
We provide two different options regarding the source code in your project.
We are willing to work with any of these options. The choice is yours.
If you are shopping around for a software development solution, please make sure you know which of these two you are quoted.
Copyright Transferred
You may want us to work with your existing code, or transfer the copyright of new code to you.
This is considered "work for hire" in the copyright law.
The project may cost more money than 'Copyright Retained' because we may need to write some things from scratch.
This could also increase chances of bugs appearing in the code.
The advantages to Copyright Transferred are clear if you want to market and sell the product as your own product.
You'll no doubt find that our Copyright Transferred prices are much more cost efficient than hiring an in-house development team.
Not to mention the caffeine, social security, and insurance costs of an in-house development team.
When the project is done you may have to lay-off an in-house development team or you'll have to find busywork for them.
But we will be happy when the project is done as soon as possible.
We have NDAs (Non-Disclosure Agreements) with many of our partners and clients
and we are willing to enter into one with you. This will allow
us to use your existing code functions, modules and libraries and then we
won't have to "re-invent" the wheel. If it works fine, let's keep it.
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Copyright Retained
By allowing us to retain project source code copyrights, we can provide you with a significant discount.
We can then use code from other Copyright Retained projects, allowing us to complete the project quickly and efficiently.
Our "Core" website content software is an excellent example of this by providing
your website functionality that is a common request among other websites.
To illustrate, if you have the book "Jurrassic Park", you can read it all you want,
you have the "source code".
But that doesn't mean you have the right to copy it and sell the copies to others.
Code can also be partially Copyright Retained, and partially 'Copyright Transferred'.
We would license you the right to use our pre-compiled libraries (Copyright Retained) allowing you to modify and compile your code (Copyright Transferred) without us getting involved.
Normally, you would keep the copyright on any code or media that sets your product apart from others.
Such as music, art, and high level operations like button name and location, SQL statements, and general program logic.
The mundane database access, drawing functions, etc... would be in our library that we license to you for this project.
To illustarte this, if you were Michael Crichton writing "Jurassic Park",
and we had a great island map that we created. We could licence to you the author
the right to put the island map in your book. And we could use the island map
in another book that has nothing to do with you or dinosaurs.
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