Software is licensed, not sold.
All software and related media created by PowerMake Systems LLC, including custom tools, libraries, user interfaces, scripts, or configuration frameworks, are protected under copyright law and remain the exclusive intellectual property of PowerMake Systems LLC or its contributing authors.

We believe in protecting the rights of those who design and build, including employees and contracted engineers, and ensuring that authorship and ownership are never erased by corporate usage.

 

General Purchase Policy

Purchasing any PowerMake software product grants you a non-transferable, non-exclusive license to use that software in accordance with the terms and conditions provided with the specific product.

You do not acquire rights to reverse engineer, resell, sublicense, or repackage the software unless expressly stated in your license agreement.

 

Bespoke Purchase Policy

Custom-developed (bespoke) software services grant you full usage rights , including the right to brand, package, distribute, and sell the delivered product as part of your own offering.

However, underlying software ownership, source code rights, and authorship remain with PowerMake Systems LLC and its contributors at all times, unless otherwise agreed to in a separate written agreement. This ensures fair recognition and legal protection for all engineers and contributors involved in development.

 

Proprietary Data Protection

Any proprietary data provided by you, including business logic, files, configuration settings, or client-specific content, will be maintained separately from our software codebase and remains fully under your ownership .

We will never disclose, transmit, or share your proprietary data with any third party, except through your explicit authorization, and only then to facilitate the completion of a task we are completing for you.

 

Contributor and Author Protections

Authorship Retention

All individuals or entities contracted by PowerMake Systems LLC to contribute to software, documentation, or system design retain recognition of authorship for their original work. Unless otherwise agreed in writing, no contribution shall be construed as a transfer of copyright to the client.



Moral Rights

We respect the moral rights of engineers and creatives to be credited for their original contributions. Any attempt to remove or obscure such attribution without written permission from PowerMake Systems LLC or the original contributor is prohibited.



Licensing vs. Assignment

Unless a formal copyright assignment agreement is signed, all work produced under contract or subcontract remains licensed , not sold or assigned, and is protected under the same usage and distribution terms described above.



Open Contributions and Collaboration

Where appropriate, and with mutual agreement, components developed by our contributors may be offered under open licenses (such as MIT, BSD, or custom internal terms), but such usage will always be accompanied by clear licensing statements and attribution requirements.

 

Protection of Contributor IP

PowerMake Systems LLC will not resell, relicense, or repackage contributor-created works into external products without the author's knowledge and explicit agreement, unless the work was originally created under full assignment terms.