On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 19:15, Andrew Jorgensen wrote: > 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. >
We used to get free license to use WP software, but Novell stopped that. Anyway, this whole thing is known as "work for hire." Essentially all of the code you write at BYU for classes or research is copyright the university. Now I've been told that the only way to take your code with you when you leave (ie and do something with it like a business) is to GPL or LGPL it right from the start. This nicely sidesteps the issue of copyright because the copyright is still BYU's and they can do what they want with the code, including close it up. But they can't revoke the license on the code that's already out. Does that make sense? Anyway, it's fun working within the BYU bureaucracy (sp?). Michael -- Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
