This is EXACTLY what's happening with me.  I wrote an image (object)
extraction system.  The clients management is in an arguement and neither
wants to pay, both are playing me (the contractor) as the pawn.  So, now I
have an system.   So, I'm going to go into selling it for myself.  There was
no clause in the contract against seeking to sell to others, besides they
never honored the contract anyway.   Also the code I delivered earlier (and
was paid) was not within a contract and in that condition, the code is owned
by the person who wrote it.

Damn greedy companies anyway.  they make alot off of our brows and pay us
nothing for it, yet they turn around and sell it for way too much.  Open
Source is Civilized!

Thaddeus

"Peter L. Peres" wrote:

> >Sounds like a great clause to put into any future development contract.
> >
> >Mark Newland wrote:
> >
> >>Since he has not paid for the services that you provided, he should not
> >>own >>the rights to that code or any other work that you have done.
> >This >would >>probally mean that you still own the rights to it.  What
> >would prevent >you from marketing the product yourself?
>
> Actually I heard that a small number of open source designs started out as
> designs that werenot paid for promptly ...
>
> Peter
>
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