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You could certainly ask for the right to redistribute the code when we were negotiating the contract. But that would get you a much larger quote since now you w
by jasonkester 4y ago
You could certainly ask for the right to redistribute the code when we were negotiating the contract. But that would get you a much larger quote since now you wouldn’t just be buying the software, you’d also have to be paying for every potential future sale of something similar.
I can’t imagine that the government (or anybody really) would do that.
- unnah 4y agoI suppose it depends on the market. I have been involved in a number of contracts to develop bespoke software for big private sector companies. Twenty years ago they were happy to just buy usage rights, but since then the customers have grown wiser to their leverage and keep insisting that if they pay for the development work, they get to keep the rights to the results. It's different if the vendor already has IP that can be licensed to the customer to substantially reduce the development cost of the bespoke solution.