=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jo=E3o_Pinheiro?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd rather not take any risks on this, specially considering what > happened to a friend of mine last year. A student stole his source while > he was away from the laptop and submitted it himself. The result was > that both both of them got kicked out of the subject even though the > other guy admitted that he had stolen the source and my friend proved > that he had coded it himself. They completely disregarded such proof and > forced my friend to take the entire subject again.
Your academy sounds broken. If you care about their approval, there's not probably nothing you can do without asking them and doing exactly what they want. You seem to believe your plan will be controversial, so check with them beforehand. Maybe it would be less risky to wait until your course marks are given? Another problem is that some academies are trying to get copyright assignment from students as part of their general terms of entry. They have one eye on being able to "commercialise" it all later, but most of it is left to rot. The far-sighted ones are already correcting that and issuing under a "default" liberal licence after N months, but check your academy's regulations. If you care about their actions, ask them and get it in writing. Personally, I'd publicly flame them to a well-done crisp for what they did to your friend, if it's really as bad as you say. But I'm unreasonable like that :-) -- MJR/slef, former student media and student union activist My Opinion Only: see http://people.debian.org/~mjr/ Please follow http://www.uk.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
