[yogurtboy]

Totally agree with this advice. The only caveat would be that there can be legal issues with charging money to work on a product that has specific licenses, whether or not you own it. You need to do some research (or maybe you could ask the company to do that research) to make sure you don't have to do some copyright wrangling to do this legally.

[HeyLaughingBoy]

That's interesting. What licenses have you seen that prohibit charging for work on the associated product?

[andreareina]

Don't know if it's what GP means but without a clear contract there's room for the paid work to be considered "work for hire" which means the company owns the change and OP wouldn't be able to incorporate it into the open source version of the project.

[gigamick]

I'll look into it. thanks a lot.