As I understand the company responsible for project implementation has merged within a big corporate. As a rule, all property of the small company becomes automatically the property of the corporate, including assets, buildings, and even manpower (depending on if the corporate does intend to keep them). Therefore it can not be systems configuration team that can take a decision. In any case now the small company does not exist as it has become a part of high profile corporate and hence the systems configuration team also becomes the part of corporate. The ‘code’ or software in any case is or was not the property of a team of that company, it was (and is) company’s property.

As I understand the company responsible for project implementation has merged within a big corporate. As a rule, all property of the small company becomes automatically the property of the corporate, including assets, buildings, and even manpower (depending on if the corporate does intend to keep them). Therefore it can not be systems configuration team that can take a decision. In any case now the small company does not exist as it has become a part of high profile corporate and hence the systems configuration team also becomes the part of corporate. The ‘code’ or software in any case is or was not the property of a team of that company, it was (and is) company’s property.