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In article <BuG1v1.E5o@ddsw1.mcs.com> karl@ddsw1.mcs.COM (Karl Denninger) writes:

|   Whoh!  Just a minute here!
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|   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.
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|   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).
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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.
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