Timothy,
Can you even assign copyright for something you are doing _related_ to
your probable research work at Binghamton? Even if you are working on
this 100% in what you consider as your spare time, your employer may
have claim to the work.
I only ask this as I remember the contracts I signed for my work here.
You may have it in writing with your employer that you personally own
the copyright and patentable ideas in all the future works that you
create related to Open Graphics, and therefore can license it as you see
fit, but perhaps you don't.
Universities can be pretty funny when it comes to IP of any sort. IP
created that is in any way related to any research that you are being
paid to do would probably be in a dark grey area. I am assuming that
you are a professional, not an hourly employee, and you may not actually
have any official spare time when it comes to related work.
Why don't you spend ~$1k and run your employment contracts by a lawyer
specializing in such things (work for hire). I have been told that New
York law is in general pretty funny compared to the other states; I
don't know how that might effect you.
It may be that you need to run any license though whatever legal office
exists at your university. For example: Wasn't the copyright of the X
source originally held by MIT, but then licensed very permissively
through the 'MIT X License'?
IANAL (obviously)
-John
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John R. Culp
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