From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jan 23 14:42: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C577437B404 for ; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 14:41:49 -0800 (PST) Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.11.0/8.11.0) id f0NMfjf11245; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 14:41:45 -0800 Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 14:41:45 -0800 From: Brooks Davis To: Kevin Brunelle Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: C style continued.... (Craig and Terry) Message-ID: <20010123144145.A6437@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <3.0.6.32.20010123135847.009c9400@mail85.pair.com> <20010123125210.A21362@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <3A6E03C7.79F32AAE@netzero.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <3A6E03C7.79F32AAE@netzero.net>; from kruptos@netzero.net on Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 05:20:55PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 05:20:55PM -0500, Kevin Brunelle wrote: > Okay, I was not able to find out for certain, but I believe that the > school retains the right to own the rights to all work done for classes. > And I believe that my teacher said they had a policy stating that the > specific professor for the class was the rights holder should they wish > to do that. It is that teacher's decision. He said that he has never > done it in the past and wasn't interested in doing so -- one of the > reasons all the code was GPL'd. I think this is another reason he > doesn't like the BSD license, because he loses all rights to the code. What a f*ed up mess. If he provides required starting code what is legitamatly GPLed then you're screwed. This guy's reasioning doens't seem to be all the selfconsistant. Personaly, if you'll have to deal with this guy on a reqular basis, I'd look very hard at finding a different program and tell the administration exactly why if you do. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message