I am a subcontractor, and we have asserted our data rights in our proposal to the Prime, who has a government contract. We are now negotiating T's&C's, and the Prime is telling me that the language has to specifically state that they "get a license to use our IP in performance of the Prime, and allow third parties to do the same."
I disagreed because I told them we will deliver whatever is a deliverable, and if it contains IP, we have protected it as our own, but they can still use the deliverable to perform there scope and no "license" is needed.
Who is correct here?