>For the past few months I have been doing contract work on a project by project basis for a local company. All is going well and we have a good working relationship.
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>I just got a call from them asking about ownership of the code for these projects, and asking me to sign an agreement stating that they own the code. I have no problem with this.
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>Should this be something that we both sign on a project by project basis, or could one agreement cover all work I do for them?
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>oes anyone have a boilerplate Software License Agreement that I could look at?

You want to be careful what you sign away. If you're using library routines in the project, you want to keep the copyright on those, for example.

My standard contract says I retain copyright and grant my clients a perpetual, non-exclusive license. For some projects, we then define code that performs certain processes as belonging to the client.

Tamar