Clients, contracts, and employers, who owns the rights and how should you charge - Grasshopper2024-03-29T04:49:46Zhttps://www.grasshopper3d.com/forum/topics/clients-contracts-and-employers-who-owns-the-rights-and-how?feed=yes&xn_auth=noHi Raymundo.
Awesome work you…tag:www.grasshopper3d.com,2017-04-07:2985220:Comment:17297422017-04-07T21:54:41.443ZDavid Kayhttps://www.grasshopper3d.com/profile/DavidKay
<p>Hi Raymundo.<a href="http://www.grasshopper3d.com/profile/RaymundoBurgueno"><br></br></a></p>
<p>Awesome work you do there.</p>
<p>The question of licencing GH code has come up with myself recently too - I'd be interested to hear what is common practice.</p>
<p>Up until now for 3D designs I usually just 'sell' the final surfaces of models from Rhino, the concept of selling the code to generate those surfaces is not something I'd ever considered.</p>
<p>I guess GH/Other Scripts cross over from…</p>
<p>Hi Raymundo.<a href="http://www.grasshopper3d.com/profile/RaymundoBurgueno"><br/></a></p>
<p>Awesome work you do there.</p>
<p>The question of licencing GH code has come up with myself recently too - I'd be interested to hear what is common practice.</p>
<p>Up until now for 3D designs I usually just 'sell' the final surfaces of models from Rhino, the concept of selling the code to generate those surfaces is not something I'd ever considered.</p>
<p>I guess GH/Other Scripts cross over from designing to software development - so software licence practice must apply?</p>
<p>In the distance past I wrote embedded code for micro-controllers (small 8-bit stuff in assembly) for the home appliance industry, the end 'product' of that development was a binary file ready to burn into the ROM of the device. I would just charged my hours for the time taken and supply the tested binary at the end of the project.</p>
<p>GH seems a little be different as the value of the code could be many times greater than the time it takes to develop it. The current code I'm developing could save the company that have asked me to look into it 1000's of man hours - taking design changes from around 10 hours per design to just seconds plus giving the ability to explore design versions not currently possible. I've only put 20 hours into the GH code, but believe I'll need to charge for the VALUE supplied otherwise I'm undervaluing the work.</p>
<p>Anyway - interested to see what others do in this sector.</p>
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<p>Cheers</p>
<p>DK</p>
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