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preece@urbana.mcd.mot.com (Scott E. Preece) writes:

>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.

In California at least, there are interesting restrictions on how
software can become the property of someone other than the writer.
In particular, they have to have paid you AND provided a certain
level of benefits--health insurance and so forth.  Otherwise, the
software remains the creator's property.  When we wrote a simulation
environment for UC Santa Cruz, we were notified by the Univeristy
towards the end of the project that we (the team) were the joint owners
of the software.

					Andy Valencia
					ajv@csd.mot.com