What the other person is saying is that the ACQ should be seeing a lawyer and making SWF pay for the lawyer to figure out a license.

Yep, this is already happening. I am just trying to help ACQ understand that if they want me to do updates, I need source code, and to get source code, maybe they need to have a software licence, maybe something like X. I am asking this board for recommendations on what X could be.

I don’t know. It’s all up to ACQ, and I’m just offering to give techincal assistance, and for technical assistance, I need source code.

is licensed to ACQ for use (but not modification), then there will be a need for ACQ (not SG) to negotiate a source-code license with SWF.

yes, the negociation is being done by ACQ. I am giving assistance explaining to ACQ how what they want can be achieved. I am not certain on the specifics on which licence to recommend, so I am coming to the wise people of this community to see what they might know that I am missing. As in “here’s a licence I used/saw that could help”

2. is wrong. 1) is correct.

There are plenty of licenses out there that would work

I know there are plenty, that’s why I’m asking for specific recommendations.

That said, my limitted experiences with similar situations never involved an insider I was close with, so I mean it when I say I wish you the best of luck.

thanks for the well wishes.

Thankfully, Uruguay is not argentina, and thiel moved to Arg, not Uy.

In the immortal words of former president Jorge Batlle :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuJzJadl1Nw

no compare la Argentina con el Uruguay o usted es un ignorante absoluto de la realidad
Don’t compare Argentina with Uruguay or you are someone who is absolutely ignorant of reality.

Edit : Alright… let’s do it

Yes, the favours are/were that big. It’s not a company, it’s a person I know. I don’t want to doxx myself by sharing my life state to this degree. You are giving largely sound career advice to other people, but I’m just asking about an appropriate software license to present to the ACQ, and you haven’t given advice on that.

OK, the situation isn’t “get my lawyer involved” it’s a person that’s close to me that has done big favours for me. I’m only asking about where to get the appropriate software licence. If you think that the Polyform licence isn’t something that helps, let me know.

they might have been in the pipeline, but due to the success we had against CFCs and other pollution issues, we felt like it was just another battle to progress. Then 9/11 happened, and instead of fighting to improve things, we fought to keep things, and then just got kicked in the face repeatedly.

It’s actually ACQ that’s complaining about the maintainence. They want the project to be finished, and if they need some minor changes, for me to get involved. Probably due to the cost of monthly payments (speculation).

A maintenance contract, however, would grant such a license to ACQ. And if such contract allows for subcontractors to access the source code, then formalizing SG as an unpaid contractor would be a way forward.

Do you know where I can find an example of this kind of licence?

EDIT : Basically, ACQ wants changes after delivery date, and I need source code to make the changes and deploy them to wherever. We need a licence that says “ACQ and SG will use the source code only to make changes for their system/deploy and not sell it, SWF keeps all their rights and do whatever they want with the code”

EDIT2 : I went for a slightly modified Polyform internal use licence, what do you think? https://polyformproject.org/licenses/internal-use/1.0.0

late 80s here. We had a nice world before 9/11. there was hope.

you mean when people were so impatient that they spent money to call an actual person to demand a pizza delivery in under 30 mins, then demanded it was free if it was one minute late, and if it was on time, paid for it with a credit card that charged interest?

Which one did you choose?

I don’t think it’s a sound idea

People are now conditioned to need INSTANT GRATIFICATION FOR EVERYTHING ALWAYS!

you haven’t read anything about credit cards and the 20th century, have you? how old are you? like 19?

Fry: Man, I thought Ultimate Robot Fighting was real, like pro-wrestling, but it turns out it’s fixed, like boxing.

I think I said it the wrong way around, it’s been a horrible day.

FIX : Make deep frying batter. dip frozen butter in batter so it won’t defrost by the time the batter is fried.

What’s your poison?

Age

1. Make deep frying batter. dip frozen batter butter in butter batter so it won’t defrost by the time the batter is fried.
2. I don’t know why. 😭🇺🇸