>These are few guidelines I like to go by:
boy this was an excellent post Trey!
Brian this is exactly what I do, and I define 'what's mine' in my contracts as "Embedded Software - that which is owned by the Contractor, a third party, or the public domain" Then flag all the items on the statement of work that include the use/reuse/regurgitation of "embedded software".
Roxanne M. Seibert
Independent Consultant, VFP MCP
Code Monkey Like Fritos