I found a lot of questions and answers about how to protect yourself from the so called bad boys/ IP thieves and how to enforce rights. As a BSD guy myself I'm not particular interested in this and I somewhat want to turn the question around and ask exactly the opposite: How do you protect yourself from getting sued? In theory the answe...
Hello, I am wondering if it is possible in someway, to secretly embed information such as the purchase id in a file, so that if a file is being distributed, I know which purchase id it is. Something like MD5 + I don't know what. Something like steganography. Thank you for your time. ...
From the Wowhead Terms of Service: "Intellectual Property Rights The Service and any necessary software used in connection with the Service ("Software") contain proprietary and confidential information that is protected by applicable intellectual property and other laws. You agree not to modify, rent, lease, loan, sell, distribute ...
Over the last few years, I worked in several product-based organizations; all in the same country, and all with a presence at multiple geographical locations locally, and off-shore. Each firm had it's own in-house framework for it's products. Where the product was ported to a different language/technology ( windows sdk/vc -> web/java ) ...
I'm very new to software contracting; this is my first project. I've just built a point-of-sale software system for a client, and neither of us put a lot of work into the contract. I wrote that the software was "jointly owned" with exclusive license for use given to the client. The client is using it at one store and is very pleased with...
So I've written a vertical market application that has interest from a large corporation. Hurrah! What kind of software license should I use? In particular: Currently I own the company that wrote the software. I don't want to devalue the worth of the company by "giving the software away". The software is a mix of a Web site and Wind...
Disclaimer: I'm not sure if this is for a programming or startup forum, anyway... Hello, I'm building a software (a concept-mind-mapping/diagramming product in .NET) and seeing trouble with obfuscation (alteration of deliverable code to difficult decompilation): It cost money and time to make it work ok, and I think hackers will break i...
many people remove the copyright from my script , what i can do ? best wishes it is a php script and open source :D ...
It seems from reading SO that there's a lot of legal concern about Boost in some companies. Some people are apparently prohibited from using it. Since Boost is licensed under about the most permissive license you could possibly think of, where does this concern stem from. Edit: People have asked for specific posts. I don't remember ...
What product / technology can I you use to protect my java code in a commercial application? Is there a obfuscator that does the job? On the other side, it would be great to have anything that combines file-based license management with byte-code encryption. Any Ideas? Best practices? ...
I've started as a developer a few months ago (c#/vb.net) and I am keeping a folder in my "pendrive" (not really a pendrive) of all the sourcecodes that i modify, with all problems i solve, and solutions i create (profissionally). That may somehow violate the policy of where i work, because everything i do is their legal and intellectual ...
I've concocted an open source license in my head that I feel is a good compromise between copyleft and permissive licenses. I think it extracts many of the benefits of copyleft with few of the downsides. Here's a rough draft of it. The spirit of it is that a company should be able to profit by adding value to open source software, but...
As programming teams become less and less centralized, services such as Dropbox, Beanstalk, and Yammer make it easier than ever to share source code, intellectual property and confidential information. Presumably these companies are operated by technologists that are just as curious as their customers that entrust their content to these...
If so, what is your policy on doing so? Do you claim copyright/trade secret for ALL source code files or do you claim copyrights for all and Trade Secrets for only those that contain Trade Secrets? Can you post sample comment blocks with the legalese and how you arrived at it? I bring this up, because some time ago, when i worked for ...
I am thinking of outsourcing development of a Rails app to dispersed developers overseas. But I am concerned that I would be exposed to having the entire system stolen, with the stealee setting up a parallel SaaS service. Is it possible/practical to somehow split up the code or partition the app so no single developer gets access to all ...
I've written code for my own projects - created before I got my full-time gig and maintained by me since - that would excel at solving some issues that we're having on one of my day-time projects. However, I'm afraid that using my code to solve my employer's problem will accidentally give them ownership. So, It seems like I've got a few ...
Perhaps the most obvious way of protecting a company's intellectual property from its own developers seems to be an NDA - Non Disclosure Agreement. Effectiveness of this approach may vary, depending on many factors, and sometimes or somewhere it may not work as expected. What other approaches, apart from this purely legal one, exist for...
Is it okay to include other open-source packages in my own software package? In particular, I want to distribute my software (using Apache 2.0 license), and I would like to include another package, which uses the same license (my software compiles and links against it). Also, I am using two boost libraries. Can I just include them in m...
In our organization, project teams come up with a need and funding and developers are given a basic scope and are allowed to develop the solution. There is a certain degree of implementation freedom given to the developers. They drive the solution to pilot and live deployment from its inception. If the solution is presented in a confere...
Possible Duplicate: Protection of code from its own developers My company is planning in hiring outsourcers to work for us, but concerned to give whole existing code to outside world. What is the proper way to deal with security of sharing code in such cases? Is it possible to restrict part of code for developers? So each o...