Did anyone sell source code here?

[thomus07]

JVene, thanks for the lowdown on Apple stuff. I guess you can't just make your own app and load it on your iPhone without being "incorporated", hah?

Potential loss of future jobs from that company, or them reusing the code, or worse, selling it as well. You can do a host of different things with a source code project. In my book I always treated source code file as some sort of intellectual property, that is why my hesitation. All my previous contracts (freelancing) did not include sales of the source files. I'd normally offer a 6 month warranty on the software that would be enough for a company to fully test it and see if it suits their needs. Software is not like hardware, it doesn't break with time.

For freelancing work, it's a good idea to always get the source code in buyer's point of view.

In freelancer's point of view, unless they are selling their own specific product, they can come forward to give the source files. The freelancer may be an expert developer, but they are after all a freelancer. An one man show. If they have a registered company, then closed source is meaningful.

When I work for tele-commute, they usually get the source codes.