How to Get a Software Application Built
I need help understand the legal and ethical challenges that one encounters when attempting to develop a piece of software from scratch. I use a desktop application that most users probably utilize at around 20% of what is built into the app. For argument's sake, let's say that software package has two distinct but interrelated functions, but that the majority of the users only use one of them.
I would like to have a piece of software built that contains the 20% of what most users use the app for as well as add some features that I feel are overlooked in the current product that I use.
So - these are my questions:
1. Ethically, is it wrong to show a potential developer the product that I am currently using, while explaining what I want and don't want in my product?
Or, should it all be written out in longhand?
2. Since I can't tell the difference between a line of code and a line from the Dead Sea scrolls, how can I be assured that the coder has not used any of the code in the product that I showed him/her? I don't want any legal issues cropping up, later on.
Getting answers to these two questions will help me form more questions going forward so that I can pursue this with a reasonable amount of precaution.
Any help you can offer will be greatly appreciated.
Cheers. - Frank
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