The client of the windows application that I've been doing sent me a mail with a few questions. One of which was to ask if we developed everything completely by ourselves if not, are we using anything that has licensing implications. Nothing wrong with asking that, it was just that the reason they asked the question was because they see that there are a few files with .DLL extensions and thus were worried we were using unlicensed components. Presence of DLL files = Possible illegal use of components. I gotta note that down.

The mail also included a clause about the program. The client wanted us to GUARANTEE 100% that they're not violating any copyright/patents by providing the program to the users.

To that I replied in a much more clamer way... "NO FARKING WAY AM I GONNA PROMISE THAT!" While for the most part I can say that we didn't violate any copyrights, but I can't say that I 100% didn't, who knows.. maybe someone copyrighted the term for the application??? :P Then on patents, there's no way in hell I'm gonna promise no one's gonna sue them for patent infrigements. Who knows if someone might just dig out a patent for making applications which automatically update themselves and start suing everyone!