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What is Source-code escrow?

Definition 20.5 The Desk and the Firm · Chapter 20 — Build against Buy

Source-code escrow is an arrangement under which a vendor deposits the source code of its product with an independent agent, to be released to the client on defined events such as the vendor’s insolvency or its ceasing to support the product.

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