> On 13 May 2025, at 12:35, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users <perl6-us...@perl.org>
> wrote:
>
> On 5/13/25 2:56 AM, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote:
>>> On 13 May 2025, at 11:22, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users
>>> <perl6-us...@perl.org> wrote:
>>> I just got off a YUGE jobs where I installed two servers, a
>>> firewall, and redid their networking. Part of what I did
>>> was a lot of coding to getting things all working as expected.
>>>
>>> Question: who own the code I created. I do not list
>>> code as a part (merchandise) on my invoices. I only
>>> charge for the labor.
>> Did you charge for the hours you were coding?
>
> About half of them. Charged 88 hours total for the whole
> job. Probably 20 hours charged coding various things.
So you got paid for the programming work you did.
I'd say, unless you made prior arrangements with the client specifically
stating that you own the copyright on the programming work you did, the client
owns the rights to the code.
The client may not have an interest in the rights. So maybe it's not too late
to make it clear to the client that they have the right to *use* the code, but
that they do not *own* the code.
Or just leave it be. And use it as a lesson for a contract with any future
client: that they get the right to use the code, but that they don't own the
code.
