> The gist is that WordPerfect and Novell both came out of BYU one way > or another and BYU never saw a dime. They have a policy now (I'll have > to dig up the actual document some day) that all creative works > produced while you're a student or faculty of BYU is property of BYU. > Many Universities have policies like this. Most students ignore it, of > course, but most professors can't. The Tech. Transfer Office was > created to handle sales of technologies created at BYU.
I've had this question in the past. If I work for BYU (which I do) and write
a useful program or script, how can I go about GPLing it? Do I need to get
permission from some office, set the copyright being from BYU, and then
GPL it? Has anyone gone through this process?
-Evan
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