Guillaume,

I never had to take a decision as you do. When I was working as a freelancer I wrote some code, but interestingly the company I did for is not selling the sole solution but ather a full service, so they owe the code, the client never sees it and wehen the client resigns from the service and support contract, ne will have nothing left. Actually, that gave me bad taste in my mouth.

But as others said before, regarding licenses consult a lawyer.

Regarding of what you could give back top the community, I'd think it would be rather usefull to get one or the other module you wrote for your app. It could be that there is one such thing whrer you'd say, that it would be no risk to your own business to publish that module to CPAN. But beware that the time you spend for supporting such a module and so on will take time, which you might need or at least better should invest into your business.

So, to make my point on it: DON'T do anything except your business now. It will take all your time and you'll have enough time later to give back something to the community.

Ok, I should have said that you help the community a lot as well by donating to perlmonks.org from your business profits. {grin}

Have a nice day
All decision is left to your taste

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