May I suggest what we do Fnid? We give a price for Royalty Free Licensed version of the code (that's actually exactly the same thing we use for it), and for "W

May I suggest what we do Fnid? We give a price for Royalty Free Licensed version of the code (that's actually exactly the same thing we use for it), and for "Work for Hire" as the other IP arrangement. We charge more for the WfH arrangement (~40% more for hourly contracts, and somewhere like 100-250% more for fixed fee contracts). On the work for hire contracts, we don't reuse that code (and we write all the code from scratch). 90-95% of clients take the RFL version and the higher rate allows is to disallow RFL for esoteric stuff we have no reason to expect we'd ever look at again. For some of our early clients, we just gave them the license grant when it was all over (not out of sneakiness, just because we thought we needed to do that to get him into the clear absent documents signing over rights), and one of them flipped his shit. So now we do it this way, and people know what they're getting into upfront if they choose the cheaper method, and we can go into how they get great savings from doing the RFL version. (And we "Just say no" to patents).