Module 3 · Chapter 7

Software

A factory sold out of a group often needs the group's software until its own system works. The licence limits the use, allows an extension, and gets the factory's records out first.

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In this chapter

  • What the Sheffield company may and may not do with KelderPlan
  • How the software licence is extended, and what the extra months cost
  • How the factory's records come out before the software is deleted

7.1Software licences in one paragraph

The Sheffield company plans its production and keeps its quality records in KelderPlan, the group's own software. Software is protected by copyright under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, so the factory needs a licence to keep running KelderPlan.

Clause 2.3 grants one for the Software Period: the two-year Term, or up to three months more if the Sheffield company extends. The licence covers object code only, the form of a program that a computer runs and people cannot read.

Key point

The factory borrows KelderPlan only until its own system works. It may run the software as it is, at the factory, and its records must come out before the software is deleted.

Also in this chapter

  1. What the Sheffield company may do with KelderPlan
  2. Support comes from the transitional services agreement
  3. Extending the Software Period
  4. Data out first, software off second
  5. Your job

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