On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 08:25:04PM -0700, Andrew Jorgensen wrote: > Michael Halcrow wrote: > There was some suggestion that you could let BYU own the copyright and > still license it under the GPL (maybe), but I don't think that a > professor could /advocate/ open sourcing a project done for school. > It's unfortunate, but true, that there are legal implications.
So, let me get this straight... I *PAY* to take a class at a
university, conceive of a project, use my own equipment to develop the
software, use my own time and efforts to write it, and then my school
claims to own the copyright for the software I write? I don't think
so. My school doesn't own me. If the school funds the development of
the software by paying me to write the software, I can understand
that. If it's on my own time, on my own equipment, whether it is in
conjunction with a class project or not, as far as I'm concerned, *I*
am the one who owns the copyright, not BYU.
I will not release code under the BSD license, so some other entity
can take advantage of my work without returning it to the community;
GPL is the only acceptable license for code that I write and release
to the community, to ensure that the community receives maximum
benefit from my work.
Mike
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