On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 10:08:03AM -0500, Greg Wilson wrote: > Regardless of whether the FLOSS organization requires a contributor's > agreement, is it wise to get one so that the student's university doesn't > think they have any rights to what the students has done? Students at the > University of Toronto retain rights to what they write for courses, but > the University also has some rights, and it isn't clear that the student > can sign the latter away (explcitly or implicitly). We can all agree on > how it *should* work, but does anyone have any actual case experience?
A bit tangential, but: Michigan State's policy is explicitly that the students own their own work unless it's done for research. For my Web dev course, I explicitly require certain rights in the syllabus -- specifically, the ability to redistribute code to the rest of the class -- and, since it's not a required course, it's OK for me to do that. And, finally, MSU is explicitly OK with releasing anything under the GPL as long as all authors agree. cheers, --titus -- C. Titus Brown, c...@msu.edu _______________________________________________ tos mailing list tos@teachingopensource.org http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
