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MrPiskin2017-07-19 03:00:49
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MrPiskin, 2017-07-19 03:00:49

Transfer of project rights and MIT license?

There is a project (project1). Part of this project is another project (project2), posted on github under the MIT license. Both are my own. I transfer exclusive rights to the entire project1 to a foreign customer, will these rights also apply to project2? Or will it remain under the MIT license for the customer too?
In general, the main thing for me is that the customer cannot forbid further development and distribution of the project2

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Alexander Aksentiev, 2017-07-19
@Sanasol

Did you write it for a customer and/or for money? But they themselves decided to file an open license at the same time?
If you wrote during the working hours of the project1, then this, as it were, is not yours, and openness had to be agreed with the customer before sculpting MIT. Otherwise, it’s possible to throw all orders / commercial code into open source and receive money at the same time.
If they wrote not during working hours or even earlier than the draft1, then of course there can be no claims by definition.

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Zr, 2017-07-19
@Zr

IANAL. TINLA.
> Or it [the framework - Z.] will remain under the MIT license...
Whatever specific license you call the vague phrase "MIT license"¹, as far as I know, they are all free, and therefore irrevocable .
That is, yes, it will remain regardless of your desire, as well as the desire of future owners. Of course, except if additional circumstances come to light, for example, it turns out that you did not have the right to issue a license at all².
Moreover, if the application is already published as free (I did not understand this from the wording of the question), then it will remain so, even if you assign exclusive property rights to it to someone.
And yes, at the same time, your private problem is essentially incomprehensible to everyone: if you do not want to cede the rights to this or that work, then do not concede! You after all treaty voluntarily enter into, I hope?
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¹ Most likely, of course, we are talking about an Expat license .
² For example, because they did not have sufficient rights to the work (for example, because they wrote it as part of their work). Or they did not have legal capacity (for example, due to age).

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BBmike, 2017-07-19
@BBmike

You express yourself somehow vaguely and vaguely, comparing vodka and purple.
You will always be the author.
Exclusive rights to an object of intellectual property are transferred only under an agreement.
Have you entered into some kind of agreement on the transfer of exclusive rights with the new owners of the project?
What kind of projects you handed over to whom are not at all interesting.

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CityCat4, 2017-07-19
@CityCat4

Counter question - what rights are you transferring? In the copyright section there are property and non-property rights, the latter cannot be transferred :) As for the former and the ban on further development, you need to carefully read the contract with the customer. And even if under the contract you are obliged to transfer it in such a way that you cannot develop further, no one bothers to make a fork.

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