The attendees at the specialized meeting of managers of software companies of NSR Organization in Tehran considered the access to software source code to be only one of the important issues in this field and emphasized the importance of the work team and customers and interaction with the government
According to the Iran digital economy annotation, the meeting of managers of software companies of Tehran Computer Trade Union Organization was held. In this meeting, a group of managers of software companies were present and a specialized panel was held on the need to provide source codes and copyright.
Seyed Majid Ouraie, a member of the board of directors and the head of the software development department of the NSR Organization in Tehran, said in this panel: According to the Law on Protection of Computer Software Creators and the Law on Authentication of Authenticity, software companies are required to provide their source codes.
He added: Many private sector activists have complained about this and believe that the source codes will be changed and updated after some time. We had several meetings with the members of NSR Organization and it was decided to ask the opinion of the elites of this field as well.
Entrusting the source to specialized companies
Amir Masoud Oskuelar, the head of the arbitration center of NSR Organization in Tehran, said: only the source code is not the property of the companies; Team, teamwork and customers are more valuable than source code.
He added: source code is dynamic and constantly changes. There is less litigation about source code. We have 8 thousand software companies, each of them has produced several software. If the sources are to be maintained by companies, an exorbitant fee must be paid for it.
“Some companies maintain sources,” Oskuelar said. The best thing is to entrust the maintenance of the source to a third party. Of course, this should not be mandatory.
The source code is not important
Mehrdad Zolfagharian, head of the Advanced Organizational Software Commission of the Computer Trade Union Organization, said: I don’t consider the source code that important. During the Corona era, I wrote the memories of the cases that I dealt with, and out of 1,300 cases, 500 cases were about non-software issues and problems.
He added: 700 cases were about software problems and only 8 cases were about source code and copyright. The classification of software is very wide. Most software documentation is more important than the source code.
There is no trust
Nasser Shaker Hosseini, head of the Electronic Health Commission of Computer Trade Union Organization of Tehran province, said: source code has become honorable. Little work has been done in this field. If the number of complaints about copying is low, this indicates that there is a lack of trust in the government.
He added: Now it is said that we do not have access to the sources before 2016, it is not unlikely that it will soon be announced that there is no access to the source codes until 1400. We must prepare a national database of all software products.
Rostami, deputy general director of the General Department of Accreditation and Issuance of Activity Licenses of the Information Technology Organization, said in this panel: “The law has declared that software creators and owners are supported.” Now these questions must be answered; Why should documents be delivered? Are the source codes comparable? Why should companies hand over their source codes?
In case of 15% similarity, the copyright has been violated
Ghadimi, The official justice expert in software cases and computer crimes said in this panel: The biggest challenge in the field of legal issues is software registration. When we inquired about the source, it was announced that everything that existed since 2016 and was presented to the Informatics Council, now no longer exists.
He added: We are facing problems in the process of acquiring the source code. In the software detection process, the share of source code is 15 to 20 percent.
Ghadimi said: Some companies took a commitment from their employees not to work in competing companies for 10 years after resigning and finishing their work. If this obligation is not reasonable. 70% of the UI/UX used are similar to each other.
According to him, if the legal expert determines that 15% of the software has been copied, there has been a copyright violation.
Sajad Naeemvafa, the head of the working group to identify executive and legal challenges of issuing licenses for computer software, said: The work processes of registering and supporting software products have several parts.
He added: process review, implementation guarantee and source code are essential parts of software support and registration.
Hamed Monkaresi, deputy policy and accreditation officer of the Information Technology Organization, as a speaker in this event, said: software ownership should be supported. There are challenges in the software registration certificate. Due to the changes and developments created in the software field, we witnessed that being strict on registering documents and obtaining licenses was not effective.
He added: Software creators believe that the source code is sensitive. In the organization, it is customary to document it, and source code is part of the information technology organization’s documentation.
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