Term Interrelationships

If you’ve been following along with us in the last month or so, you’ll have realized that the problem and complexity with software licensing isn’t the individual terms themselves, but rather the interrelated-ness and exchange that transpires when you want to cover yourself.
A change in one term, like assignment, might affect a change in the [...]

Assigning Software Licenses

Last week, we discussed Assignment, primarily as it relates to services-type work and the issues that come up in that particular arena. This time, we’ll add additional complexity by dealing with software license assignment.
[Note: the term "assignment" is used with respects to rights and the term "delegate" is used with respects to obligations. [...]

Assignment and Transferability

Assignment is the ability to redirect an agreement (or a portion of an agreement) to another party for some purpose. In many situations, it’s a way to allow a third party the ability to perform some subset of contractual responsibilities (ie: a subcontracted electrician or programmer). In the case of say, a credit [...]

Keeping up with Maintenance Costs

I keep talking about contracts sitting in file cabinets and drawers and how you need to have some sort of contract management system to keep things organized. This isn’t, however, a tip just for the buyers/licensees… but rather it’s for everyone involved on either side of a transaction.
Take Maintenance costs, for example. Your [...]

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