selling code?
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- lostnation
some guy offered to buy the source code for a mapping component i made a while back. there's a nice guy in me that would like to offer it free but i have been trying to go solo as a freelancer and could use the cash.
anyone have any ideas or resources for this sort of thing?
- bulletfactory0
i thought you misspelled "coke" in the title......
in that case.....
i have no suggestions for you. sorry
- JazX0
i thought you misspelled "coke" in the title......
in that case.....
i have no suggestions for you. sorry
bulletfactory
(Nov 18 05, 14:29)tee hee
- cadillac210
You can't copyright code - so look at it more as a donation for your time to write it.
Take it.
- -scarabin-0
personally, i would estimate the code's value by the number of hours worked on it, multiply by your hourly rate, then adjust as you see fit from there
- cram0
for me it depends... if they are using it in client work, i ask for pay. for some folks who just want to learn, i have often given and even written code for free. that's how i learned... from kind folks donating code...
- traffic_light0
You can't copyright code - so look at it more as a donation for your time to write it.
Take it.
cadillac21
(Nov 18 05, 16:09)Yes, you can. And people do all the time. Haven't you heard anything about SCO the last 3 years? They claim to own all of Unix System 5 and all of it's deriviatives. That includes all of Linux.
They are fucking insane, but it's been in court for several years now.
- madirish0
yes, you can copyright code. although, it is much, much 'easier' to do this w/ both desktop and/or server-side software than it is for dynamic scripting, or other 'web' code.
i say easier in that there are more cases where this has been upheld and models contracts can look @ for guidance and support.
depending on the situation though, i say donate the code so that others can either better it's efficiency or behaviors, or so others can learn. but then i am a strong supporter of several open source communities.
- foreign0
don't know too much about this...
but i'd say the usage rights would be the most important thing to think about when selling it.
work out the "physical" value of the code (how much you would charge to implement the code from scratch for a client), but also think about it's value as a reuasable piece of software...what will the person buying the source from you be able to do with it... reuse it for his clients? sell the source on to someone else? ... and work out how much you want to charge for those rights.