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- From: preece@urbana.mcd.mot.com (Scott E. Preece)
- Subject: Re: AT&T USL vs. BSDI/UCB, Mach3, OSF/1, GNU HURD, Linux
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- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 05:47:23 GMT
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- In article <BuG1v1.E5o@ddsw1.mcs.com> karl@ddsw1.mcs.COM (Karl Denninger) writes:
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- | Whoh! Just a minute here!
- |
- | Just because a student does work on a program does NOT make the code he or
- | she writes the property of anyone else! I know that I never signed
- | anything like that in college, and wouldn't have at any cost.
- |
- | That software that I wrote in college is MY property. No one else's. I
- | would have refused to sign away those rights and sued the school if
- | necessary to retain them. The college would be on damn thin ice requiring
- | me to give up my code in order to consider it as "counting" in coursework
- | I do believe. They are >certainly< not my employer; in fact, the exact
- | opposite I belive (I pay tuition, in effect employing >them< to teach me
- | something).
- ---
- If you worked on UNIX source code in college and the college never
- informed you of license restrictions, that just adds to their potential
- liability to AT&T for violating their license.
-
- I would be really surprised if the people who worked on BSD weren't
- working under agreements with the University of California that
- transferred the copyright on the work they did -- certainly when I
- worked as a student for a college (we're not talking homework here,
- we're talking about work done for pay) it was under that kind of
- agreement.
- --
- scott preece
- motorola/mcg urbana design center 1101 e. university, urbana, il 61801
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