On Friday 31 August 2007 00:45, Shakthi Kannan wrote: > Hi, > > ----- On 8/30/07, Deepank Gupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | But I do not think that it will be a right idea to get students > | into legal details of open-source as although it makes up a great > | topic to hear to for a 3rd or a 4th year student, a 1st year may > | feel lost in the talk. > > \--
Nice quoting ;) > Actually, you should. But, it should be addressed in a way that is > applicable to students. > > 1. They need to understand what licenses and copyright are. Why it is > copyright infringement if they copy their senior's final year thesis > or copy text from books without quoting any references, and submit it > as their final year project thesis. Also, the relevance to software > [snip] Actually if your senior gives you permission to copy his/her thesis it's not a copyright violation. It may, however, be deprecated for other reasons (plagiarism, etc.). Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/ Freedom in Technology & Software || September 2007 || http://freed.in/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - September 28-29, 2007 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
