Interesting case study of FOSS in an academic environment.
From the blog....
As a brief introduction, I'm a student at San Jose State University,
as a Computer Science major, in San Jose, CA. I had a class the last
semester (Jan 2009 -- May 2009) called "Data Structures and
Algorithms", taught by Dr. Beeson, where the homework was all code,
submitted by a certain date to an online submission/analysis system.
Throughout the semester, I posted my correct/working code publicly
<http://projects.kyle-brady.com/svn/listing.php?repname=sjsuProjects&path=%2Fcs146%2F#path_cs146_>
(project descriptions returning sometime in the near future), after
the due date, and didn't think much of it -- I thought exposing the
code to the public could be helpful for some people, as well as a good
employer reference for the future
<http://www.kyle-brady.com/tag/code-samples/>.
However, I was contacted by Dr. Beeson after the semester had ended
(May 22, 2009), telling me to remove all public code or else he'd fail
me, since he considered it a violation of the Academic Integrity
standards. I responded very politely, citing SJSU Policies and
Student Senate Resolutions/Statements:
The full article -
http://www.kyle-brady.com/2009/06/10/how-i-won-a-copyfight/
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