To Give or Not?
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- shockalot
Curious what everyone's policy is regarding handing over flash source files to clients. I've been hearing mixed answers.
- chossy0
Tell them to fuck off.
- ********0
what did the contract say?
- Salarrue0
give it without the actionscript
- shockalot0
i would love to chossy, believe me...lol
- mg330
I was hoping we'd be talking about giving to homeless people, something I never, ever do and will never do. The old saying "It is better to give than receive" may be a wise one to remember in life, and I've never seen a single homeless person give anything back to the community, or random passers-by.
Life is a two-way street; apparently they didn't get the memo.
- i once had a homeless dude put a quarter in my parking meter to avoid my vehicle getting a ticket. it turned out to be a good investment for him.********
- yeah i just tell them to fuck off...pencilpants
- i once had a homeless dude put a quarter in my parking meter to avoid my vehicle getting a ticket. it turned out to be a good investment for him.
- elee0
Most contracts treat it as "work made for hire", meaning you don't retain any rights to the files. Unless you specify that the source is yours and you're granting them a license to use the end product, you probably owe them the files.
- in the case of being hired as a white label I would agree, but i'm wondering in that applies for direct client work.shockalot
- coco_ono0
i say receive.
- mikotondria30
So you're saying that basically everything you make for a client is open-source ?
- elee0
I'm saying ownership of files is defined in the contract. If there's no contract, do what chossy says.
- shockalot0
in most cases, we never give up our source code for flash. reason being is that we consider it IP. if a client asks for this in advance then we'll we'll add the cost of this into the price of the build. i'm wondering what other people's policies are in this area.
- mikotondria30
What if you hand coded the compiled swf using notepad ?