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Hey,
I'm about to go and twist my universities arm to try to get ownership of my ideas... wish me luck :)
I'm considering doing two versions - one being open and the other not. I need to develop a basic framework - so I was thinking I would develop this, plus some fancy arsed add-ons for it, and sell that to companies, and after its tested etc, release the framework to everyone else..
And keep doing that - produce new add-ons (as such), releasing the older add-ons as a framework for anyone else to build on/improve.
Thoughts?
Also, thinking about licenses... it would halve my development time to build on GPL'ed software. I was thinking in an ideal world I could improve on them, then sell this to the companies, hoping they won't just 'steal' it (in quotes) and sell it themselves...
Can I have an agreement they won't distribute the code/binaries for say 1/2 a year? or is this illegal/immoral? Are there any moral and legal ways I could something along these lines?
Oh, and on another topic - If I take something based on a BSD license, and develop it - what happens to IPR? Do I have the IPR over the binaries/code it produces?
JohnFlux