tmasune@telstr.UUCP (Ted Masune) (05/17/91)
I am not sure that this is the proper place, for this message but I am sure that some of you can help me. Hopefully I can get alot of responses. I have a question for all you prgrammers out their that sell your customized programs to businesses. I was contracted verbally to a business to do some customized programming for two of their applications. The programs basically let you enter data, process it and print the results to a printer or file. They were completely satisfied with the program. After a few more adjustments to the programs, they paid me my fee and I was on my way. It has been almost a year now. They have now asked me to give them the source code for the programs. I told them that it would be an additional cost. They told me that I owed it to them at no cost. I know have found out that they are franchising their business and intend to sell the programs to the franchises. I told them that they should pay me royalties for the programs. They said no I don't think so. What should I do? What am I legally obligated to them. In my mind I don't beleive that I was contracted to give them the source and I think I should be entitled to royalities. Any help on the subject would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Internet : sharkey.cc.umich.edu!wybbs!telstr!tmasune CompuServe : 73617,344