Transfer of rights to the program: how to specify the author of the program?

Question

Freelance

Hello.
At the moment I am writing a program that would look very nice in my portfolio. But the rights to the program will be transferred to the customer. Is it possible to somehow mark its author in the program itself? If so, how?
Thank you.

Answer 1

IANAL, but according to our laws (Article 1265 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation), the right to be recognized as the author of a work is inalienable and non-transferable. Typically, authorship is indicated next to the copyright owner, for example:

/* audit.c -- Auditing support
 * Gateway between the kernel (e.g., selinux) and the user-space audit daemon.
 * System-call specific features have moved to auditsc.c
 *
 * Copyright 2003-2007 Red Hat Inc., Durham, North Carolina.
 * All Rights Reserved.
 *
 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
[...] 
 * Written by Rickard E. (Rik) Faith <[email protected]>
 *
[...]

Answer 2

according to our laws (Article 1265 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation), the right to be recognized as the author of a work is inalienable and non-transferable

The same article states that the author also has the right to allow the use of his work without indicating his name (i.e. anonymously).
Therefore, if you work with a customer under a contract, read your contract: if there is a wording that you give the customer permission to use the program created under your contract without specifying the name of the author, then in this case the customer, as a new copyright holder, can subsequently remove your name if desired from the program as its author - in which case you will not be able to refer to the specified article.