protected code

[Tradeuse]

I have some code that I paid a programmer to do. He is now unavailable to help me make changes and move forward. I have been trying to get hold of him to unlock the code so I can give it to another programmer to work on but have had no success.

Is there a way to unlock the code? I have paid all my invoices to this guy and never signed an agreement saying he owned the code.

Any help would be very appreciated.

Thanks

 

[StratOpt]

It may well be just as inexpensive to have your code set re-written from your rules instead of paying somebody to hack open the code set for you. If you paid him to write you some code then I see no reason why it would be protected in the first place. If you bought some of his code then I can surely see why he would have protected it. I myself am a professional EL programmer and I would much rather start a code set from scratch than try to modify the code that was started by somebody else.