On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 09:06:11AM -0500, Jos? Enrique Alvarez Estrada wrote: > > Hi: > I particullary think it's very important to define > some of this things. Since 1999, I'm trying to > implement a mecanism to incorporate Open Source > projects on universitie's courses, because I'm a > Professor. I think the problem is deeper that it > seems. I'll try to explain some concepts: > [...] > a) It's necessary to convert the traditional Computer > Science's School into a "Software Fabric", like the > Capability Maturity Model says, where student's may > occupy all the "roles" and the professors becomes the > project leaders. > What's your opinion about that?
Very good idea, i fully agree with you. My opinion is that it's preferable to convince academic institutions to relicense student's work under the [L]GPL, at least when they explicitally ask for. I heard that some universities retain copyrights on work made by students. This should be irrelevant as long as they relicense it as free software. I believe that this is _much_ more important that getting the academic community to actually contribute on free software projects, because this will naturally come later if the first statement is accomplished. -- Robert Millan
