At 11:52 AM 2/28/2002 -0600, Scott M. Dier wrote:
>Randy McLaughlin wrote:
>>proprietary world in order to find an income.  My immediate need is help 
>>with writing contracts with my clients that deliver the product they
>
>A common contract I've heard of is one that allows 6 months time where 
>they get exclusive rights to the application, and then after that 6 months 
>you get to do as you please with it.
>--
>Scott Dier <dieman at ringworld.org>

Thanks.  That's an interesting idea.  I tend to think in terms of 
separating the executable rights and the source code rights.  I have no 
problem with transferring all rights to the executable to the client, and 
I'm ok with granting a non-exclusive, perpetual right to use the source 
however they wish but I'd like to retain the right to reuse the generic 
parts of the source (without disclosing proprietary information) and to 
contribute that code to projects so that I am contributing to a larger body 
of shared code.  If I, for example, write an interface to another software 
package, I'd hate to have to wait 6 months before I could use it in another 
project.  It's so inefficient!