Mike,
Forget what is generally acceptable. If you have code which can be
repurposed for their app, then you should set this up to protect your
own rights in your own code. It's a lot easier if you have libraries
or frameworks you can repurpose. You just say that those are yours
and they are licensing them along with paying you to build the app.
However, if they hired you because you already have the app pretty
much done or a healthy head start, then you might consider asking
them to pay you up front for the head start. Sure, you give up rights
to that code, but you may get more for it than you might otherwise
get. Also, if they are interested in you being the developer for the
product on a long term basis, it might be worth your while to throw
the code in in exchange for a monthly development and maintenance
contract. Those are the most lucrative development contracts to have
-- they reduce your time hustling for work.
-Brad
On Feb 24, 2006, at 11:10 AM, Mike Woodworth wrote:
hey,
I suppose I should be excited, because I just got my first request
to write an app on spec for another company. Its a good
opportunity - its a very niche version of an application Im already
developing for retail... I look at it as a way to charge someone
else to make huge progress on an internal project. But that's my
source of anxiety as well - they want ownership of the source. So
i'm in a position of selling a major chunk of my app's prior
development efforts, and also running the risk others will have
access to my source to make competitive apps.
I've done enough contract work in my old field (freelance video) to
know about non-compete clauses and the like... and I'm sure this is
all doable - but I wanted input on what is generally accepted
practice in the biz.
this is egregiously off topic, so please reply off list... or send
links to more appropriate places to post these questions... or
lemme know and i'll wait and me buy you some drinks and pick your
brain @ RW2006 :)
mike
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