On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Timothy Clemans
<timothy.clem...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> RRF web page states
> "The University of Washington owns any patents, trademarks, copyrights
> or other work with commercial value from discoveries and inventions
> resulting from work funded by the Royalty Research Fund and these will
> be administered in accordance with the University's Patent, Invention,
> and Copyright policy. All such work shall be disclosed promptly to the
> University's Office of Technology Transfer."
>
> Would UW allow the code to be GPL licensed?
>

The code has to be GPL licensed by the viral nature of the GPL.  Thus
it has no commercial value.    Also, it is questionable whether Sage
is a "discovery or invention".  It's an engineering project that
creates a tool that will hopefully result in discoveries and
inventions.

William

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