@cjalmeida > > You even can sell, but if your client share, you can't complain.
>From what have you understood this one (about sale)? You can sell just one >time. There can be several customers, if they share fund the project. It is >quite simple, the FOSS can not be sold as such, the only thing you can charge, >is for services you provide. In this case development services. Yes you can create software package from FOSS, but you can charge for CD's, manuals, box, distribution, prepaid support hours (...), but not the software itself. Any agreements between developer and customer are not strictly binding as the code is FOSS, so upon creation it belongs to no one and everyone at the same time (read GPLs, their FAQs and expert thoughts about this). Anyway (most of the time) all the code developed, is allowed to be recreated by developer ( at least from memory), as no one can prohibit people to recreate their work for someone else. It was in middle ages when craftsmen have been put in prison (...), in order not to recreate the masterpiece. Yes customer can ask (rightfully) to hand over all the materials, manuals etc., created during the development process. There could be numerous patents on technologies used, but remember patents are not recognized all over the world equally. Patent use in FOSS software have been discussed long ago, most of the time it is not worth using them. So this becomes nonsense after all. In a case of GPL software, the maximum one can achieve, is the priority in time. If you can outrun others by means of several years (as this is practical lifetime of software), you have got all what is possible. Everything else is just a speculations and "dirty" :) games. One can do all what he wants until he has been caught somebody more powerful than him, this does not make one more right or not. Kaspars ------------------ http://kndati.lv -------------------- m2f -------------------- -- http://www.openobject.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=45656#45656 -------------------- m2f -------------------- _______________________________________________ Tinyerp-users mailing list http://tiny.be/mailman2/listinfo/tinyerp-users
