Dilema

[John Tapsell]

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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

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