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Originally Posted by Lumpy
Hello All,
I have a question that maybe someone on here could answer. I have built websites and done other misc programming work for myself for the last couple of years. Mostly just smaller scale projects for local customers. I am nearing the end of school, I have just over two semesters left before I graduate with a degree in software engineering. Wanting to find an actual job that in the software development field, I have starting applying for those that I know I can do. While I got a response back from one company, who I did submit a portfolio to, and now they are asking for the source code of some of the projects I have done. This was a little surprising to me and I was just wondering if this is normal. I haven't ever heard of this before and thought maybe someone here had an opinion on it.
I submitted to them some personal source code that I haven't used on any professional project and also told them that if they were looking for a specific piece of code that they would have to wait until I got permission from the owner, because technically I don't own the sites I have made.
Thoughts and opinions anyone?
Thank you!
It would probably be fine to give them a sample of the code that you used. Not the whole thing. This is the same a photographers using pictures that they have taken and using them in their portfolio. The photographers take the pictures for someone else, the other person owns the pictures, but it's fair use to keep one or two to show off what a good photographer you are.
