Your organization is outsourcing development of a proprietary analytics engine as part of a multi-year digital-transformation program. To ensure the company can later modify, distribute, and re-license the software without restriction, which contractual mechanism should you insist on including in the master services agreement with the vendor?
Releasing the code under a permissive open-source license (e.g., MIT) after delivery.
A written assignment of copyright from the vendor to the organization for all code created under the contract.
A mutual non-disclosure agreement that bars the vendor from disclosing technical details.
Filing a federal trademark registration for the product's name and logo.
A written assignment of copyright transfers full ownership of the software code from the vendor to the organization, giving the company all exclusive rights. A non-disclosure agreement merely keeps information confidential, a permissive open-source license such as MIT grants broad usage rights but leaves copyright with the developer, and a trademark registration protects the product name and logo-not the underlying code.
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