Code Ownership and Licensing

Overriding rule: If the code we generate is a modification of previous code, and that codebase requires a specific license: It is assumed that the resulting code is published under the required license. Ordinarily, this does not inhibit PoundTeam Incorporated from entering into an agreement to delete our final product as long as the entire codebase is provided to the client (this is the definition of “Open Source”: The client gets the code!)

Code ownership: All code created by PoundTeam Incorporated is owned by PoundTeam Incorporated unless there is a written agreement (agreed to by both parties) which states otherwise. This agreement will not be free, and failure to pay that fee constitutes cancellation of any such agreement.

Code licensing: All code created by PoundTeam Incorporated is published under the GNU GPL “Creative Commons” Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license.

Code licensing options: Ordinarily pricing for these options may not be available until project completion, when there is a clear understanding of the depth of the code in question.

• Level A) No Catalog Item: Upon request and payment of this option, PoundTeam Incorporated can avoid putting this code on our catalog and will not submit the code to any core code management system (such as the Vicidial Issue Manager for inclusion in Vicidial).
• Level B) Avoid Advertising: Upon request and payment of this option, PoundTeam Incorporated can avoid putting this code on our catalog and mentioning it to the general public in postings. This does not stop someone else from mentioning it if they find the information independently, although we will ask them not to advertise.
• Level C) Private License: Upon request and payment of this option, PoundTeam Incorporated can avoid putting this code on our catalog and mentioning it to the general public in postings. This does not stop someone else from mentioning its existence, but if they do we still will not sell the software to anyone else until it has already become available from another source.
• Level D) Code Ownership: Upon request and payment of this option, PoundTeam Incorporated will archive (or delete, at your discretion) your project and not re-use the code for anyone else and will not advertise that we’ve already created this package. Note: This does not mean someone else won’t pay us to generate that code again, we simply won’t use your code if that happens.