Upon receipt of full payment of all fees due under an SOW, all custom-developed source code, designs, and assets specifically created for the client under that SOW are assigned to the client under a worldwide, perpetual, royalty-free, irrevocable license, to use, copy, modify, and sublicense for internal and external business purposes.
We retain ownership of, and the right to reuse, the following (“Pre-existing IP”): (a) reusable components, libraries, frameworks, and utilities developed prior to or independently of the engagement; (b) generic development tools, starter templates, and boilerplate; (c) methodologies, processes, and know-how. Pre-existing IP is licensed to the client on a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, royalty-free basis as embedded in the deliverables.
Open-source components included in deliverables remain licensed under their original open-source licences (e.g., MIT, Apache 2.0, BSD). The client agrees to comply with the terms of those licences.
We may reference the engagement and the client’s name in our portfolio, case studies, and marketing materials, unless the SOW expressly prohibits it or the client requests in writing that we do not.