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Christian Liensberger [C# MVP]
1/6/2008 4:38:02 PM

Wow! This is a complicated question. Source code is not source code. You
have always to understand that you can't count the lines - for example - and
estimate the price upon the line count. But other ways don't work properly
too. You should try to remember how long it took you to make the code, check
if you find similar code around and understand how much innovation your code
delivers. Then you can start to think about a price...

Christian

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Christian Liensberger [C# MVP]
1/6/2008 5:02:46 PM

Jan Hyde (VB MVP)
1/7/2008 3:40:39 PM

"Charles A. Lackman" <Charles@CreateItSoftware.net>'s wild
thoughts were released on Sat, 5 Jan 2008 17:19:08 -0800
bearing the following fruit:

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I agree with the other poster, there is no 'rule' you can
apply. You simply have to determine what its worth to you.

Why not ask them what sort of figure they were looking at
paying (it might be a lot more than you were planning to
charge)

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Jan Hyde

BlackWasp
3/2/2008 9:19:14 AM

Also, I don't know what the law may be where you are based but in the UK,
the question may be about Intellectual Property Rights rather than source
code.

Often we will provide access to the source code but will retain the IPR.
This means that we still own the code but the client has it so that they
have the comfort that should our company close down or becone unable to
support the application then they can take this on. However, because we own
the IPR, the client cannot sell or redistribute the code. They also cannot
use it unless we become unable to support it.

This is an important consideration as technically if the client owns the
IPR, you may be unable to reuse any of the code in future projects or
re-sell the application.

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BlackWasp
www.blackwasp.co.uk

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