Re: Programmer copy rights (was Bundling Spool Files)

from Al Macintyre

Do you have some contract with the bank & technocrats.co.uk so that there are 
no legal difficulties with technocrats.co.uk selling code derived from 
software originally written for the bank?

>  From:    jacob.christiansen@technocrats.co.uk (Jacob Christiansen)

>  I used to work at a bank where I had similar problems.  
>  In the end I wrote a suite of programs to deal with the most
>  common SPLF management issues.

Were you an employee with the software belonging to the bank that wrote your 
pay checks?  

Or were you a vendor in which case the software belonged to you & the bank 
had the right to use it.  Are you a vendor with technocrats.co.uk, in which 
you have granted rights to them to sell your code?

>  Now I work with a software house and we have enhanced the original
> SPLF management into a product called Report Management/400 (RMF/400), 
> which takes care of all these sort of problems.

Was what you enhanced what originally belonged to the bank & does your new 
employer have some financial arrangement with them to share in the financial 
benefits from the derivative code, or did you mis-state yourself ... RMF/400 
is really a product of the skills you aquired at the bank and is wholey new 
code?

>  I you want to know more please contact me or have a look at our web
>  site: http://www.technocrats.co.uk/ (click on Product and Report
>  Management/400 on the sidebar).

Al Macintyre  ©¿©
http://www.cen-elec.com MIS Manager Programmer & Computer Janitor
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