> Ok well my concerns are that the Idea it self is not protected.
Currently
> any other company can claim rights for it. The idea is to patent the
Idea
> to
> protect t from other companies claiming it as their idea.
Well, you're right. It could be very bad if we work on it, and other ones
say it belong them. However, I don't know exactly how it works about
international pattents. Do you know? Of course, if it works well, we'll
have
to register it in name of both Fabricio Mota and Peter Volk.
Tell me more about these points, if you know.
Well I don't know. Here in Dresden we have an office of the pattant office
and I'll see that I can get in touch with them next week. Also there are
several offices in the collage that will support students in these type of
questions. I'll see that I can get an apointment.
> Also the question is starting to arise how we will hand this project
over
> to MySQL. My suggestion would be the following:
>
> MySQL has two versions a community edition and a Network edition. The
> community edition is free of use but prohibit the users to resell it
> bundled
> with another product. The network edition allows the license taker to
> resell
> it and also the network edition includes support from MySQL.
Yes, I think the intuitive way is to go through the same way MySQL
already
works.
> We could adopt this idea. We would provide MySQL with full rights for
> their
> community edition. If they want to include the engine into the network
> edition we would have to sell them the appropriate rights and an annual
> fee for support.
>
> What do you think?
That's a point we could think better along the development way. Of
course,
it includes to mantain a enterprise structure, and I still don't know how
much it may cost to us, what the essencial requirements to maintain, etc.
Yes I agree that this should be thought about further down the road. I
just
whanted to tell you about the idea.
Peter
