I think you are missing the point here, sure there may or may not be some merit in discussing contractual issues as they relate to those who describe themselves as "Perl programmers" (and I am sure there are as many opinions on this as there subscribers to perlmonks). However you specifically asked for something substantive (i.e. a boilerplate contract) and this is something that you really do need to engage a lawyer to get help with rather than ask here, even if your red herring about the IP and copyright issues were pertinent you would still need a lawyer to interpret those as regards the law as it prevails in the country that you are working. Even if someone were to provide what you are asking for, you don't state where you intend to work and under what jurisdiction the contract would fall - you might find yourself using a contract that has no force or even be potentially illegal under the law of the land where you are working: again you would require a lawyer to advise you on this. And what happens if you do use a contract devised from one you are given here and you end up not getting paid or getting sued or worse, what are you going to do then? Ask for you money back?, sue the monk who posted it or The Perl Foundation? At the very least if you take legal advice from a legal professional and it is wrong then you have some recourse in most countries.

Believe it or not I am trying to give you advice that is in your own best interest here, but you seem to think the opposite for some reason.

/J\

In reply to Re^3: Custom perl programming contract by gellyfish
in thread Custom perl programming contract by raymor

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