On 11/02/2015 21:39, Andy Seaborne wrote:
There is copyright and there is intellectual property. They are different.
If someone recodes an algorithm, or a workflow, but not copy the
original bytes, then copyright is different but original IP may well apply.
Some licenses, like MIT and BSD, say nothing about IP (patents). Those
license were written before IP of software was recognized (for better or
worse).
A copyright right is just the right to use the item and change it. By
saying nothing about IP, there is no right to use any associated IP in
the changed thing.
Yes, but the University claims the IP of everything done by its
employees — has done for years — and can probably make that claim stick
for everything done by them in the course of their work. :-) They
typically assign the IP back to the employee in the case of things like
books (and to the publisher for papers) produced, but in the case of
software and associated artefacts they're much more likely to retain the
IP claim. We have received legal advice on this as part of our
preparatory work to the SGA.
The legal situation might be very different for others. We're not
worried about them; we're talking about the specific artefacts that we
plan to transfer from University of Manchester to Apache as part of Taverna.
Donal.
