Source Code definition

Source Code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it. “Object code” means any non-source form of a work.
Source Code means computer software and code, in form other than Object Code or machine readable form, including related programmer comments and annotations, help text, data and data structures, instructions and procedural, object-oriented and other code, which may be printed out or displayed in human readable form.
Source Code means computer Software code or programs in human readable format, such as a printed listing of a program written in a high-level computer language. The term “Source Code” includes, but is not limited to, documents and materials in support of the development of the SOFTWARE, such as flow charts, pseudo code and program notes.

Examples of Source Code in a sentence

  • For the avoidance of doubt, the general provisions for Access Rights provided for in this Section 9 are applicable also to Software as far as not modified by this Section 9.8. Parties’ Access Rights to Software do not include any right to receive Source Code or Object Code ported to a certain hardware platform or any right to receive Source Code, Object Code or respective Software Documentation in any particular form or detail, but only as available from the Party granting the Access Rights.

  • For the avoidance of doubt, where a Party has Access Rights to Source Code that is Background for Exploitation, Access Rights exclude the right to sublicense.

  • Access Rights to Software that is Results shall comprise: − Access Rights to the Object Code; and, − where normal use of such an Object Code requires an API, Access Rights to the Object Code and such an API; and, − if a Party can show that the execution of its tasks under the Project or the Exploitation of its own Results is technically or legally impossible without Access Rights to the Source Code, Access Rights to the Source Code to the extent necessary.

  • Licensee shall have no rights with respect to any Source Code and Licensee agrees not to reverse engineer, reverse assemble, de-compile, or otherwise attempt to derive the Source Code from the Software in whole or in part.


More Definitions of Source Code

Source Code means the human-readable version of a software program that can be compiled into Executable Code.
Source Code means the human readable source code of the Software to which it relates, in the programming language in which the Software was written, together with all related flow charts and technical documentation, including a description of the procedure for generating object code, all of a level sufficient to enable a programmer reasonably fluent in such programming language to understand, build, operate, support, maintain and develop modifications, upgrades, updates, adaptations, enhancements, new versions and other derivative works and improvements of, and to develop computer programs compatible with, the Software.
Source Code means human-readable program statements written by a programmer or developer in a high-level or assembly language that are not directly readable by a computer and that need to be compiled into object code before they can be executed by a computer.
Source Code means software in human readable form normally used to make modifications to it including, but not limited to, comments and procedural code such as job control language and scripts to control compilation and installation.
Source Code means the database structures, dictionaries, definitions, program source files, and any other symbolic representations necessary for the compilation, execution, and subsequent maintenance of the Software (typically, but not exclusively, required for Custom Software).
Source Code means computer instructions and data definitions expressed in a form suitable for input into an assembler, compiler or other translator.
Source Code means the human-readable form of the computer programming code and related system documentation including all comments and any procedural code such as job control language.