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The client has a website designed and hosted by another company. They are having a disagreement. He wants me to just download the whole site - "save as" - and then he'll bring it to a new host.
There's a lot of JS scripting in the site, when I tried to open it from my desktop, lots of stuff didn't work. Should I tell him to make up with his original hosting/design company and have them talk directly to the new company?
look up all the scripts to see if there are any copyright mentions in them...
if so you would them have to understand what each script does and you would have to rebuild them.
but from your replies, I get there are really two questions. Legal and technical.
1. Who owns the code - and where is the line drawn? As in, the client wrote all the copy, so that's clearly his, but what about the the look and feel of the site? And particularly, the code behind the site?
2. Is it possible to get to all the code without the permission/help of the current host?
Answer 1: well I guess it depends on the contracts my client has with the other company.
Answer 2: I think you guys are saying yes? but I'm not sure that I'm up to it. You make it sound easy, but is it?
If the scripts are located in the client's domain, your clients should be able to relocate them without breaching copyright. That applies to server-side and client-side scripts.
The host should have no part in the copyright argument. The designers may - you'll just have to check the contract. The fact that the host and designers are the same is largely irrelevant.
Kaled.
I haven't actually talked to the client directly, I'm freelancing for an agency, so everything I know so far is from their sales guy, so the whole thing is questionable. I'm going to try and wiggle out of it as much as possible.
One last ques - since you all probably don't want to teach me java 101 here, can anyone recomend a good site where I can learn enough to get into trouble?
These should get you started. Good luck!
At first I just wanted to know what was possible, before I wasted my own time trying to figure it out.
Anyway, it's a just freelance job that is creeping in scope beyond my powers...but I'm always willing to learn. I'll post again when I have figured out the specific js problem to ask...
