This software development agreement form is designed for straightforward computer software development arrangements. The software development agreement template includes provision for milestone-related payments, customer acceptance testing, and the incorporation of both customer materials and third party materials into the software. You can see a selection of pages from the agreement here:
Sample Software Development Agreement
The template agreement can be used with a range of different licensing models. The software licence under the agreement may be limited to particular users, or to particular premises, or to a particular number of concurrent users, or to a particular number of installations, or to a particular computer system.
This software development agreement also includes escrow provisions, although it does not allow for the licensing of source code ab initio. (If you need a document with full source code licensing provisions, see our premium agreement for software development document.)
The following clauses are included in the software development agreement:
(1) Definitions and interpretation
(2) Term
(3) Services overview
(4) Development and delivery
(5) Customer acceptance testing
(6) Customer Works
(7) Customer obligations
(8) Charges
(9) Payment
(10) Licence
(11) Intellectual Property Rights
(12) Escrow
(13) Warranties
(14) Limitations and exclusions of liability
(15) Termination
(16) Effects of termination
(17) Notices
(18) General
The development agreement also includes the following schedules:
Schedule 1 - Specification of Software
Schedule 2 - Project Plan
Schedule 3 - Charges
Schedule 4 - Licensing
Schedule 5 - Form of escrow agreement
This agreement is included in our standard
Software Developer Pack.
The template is 24 pages long (including the cover sheet) and is supplied in Word (.doc) format for easy editing.
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