[lug] Open Source Software Licenses & the University

[Daniel Webb]

I know several of you are at the University, so I'm forwarding this along.
I found out yesterday that I will almost certainly be able to GPL my
graduate research here at Colorado, which is great.  What I thought was
weird is that I am only the third or fourth person to do so.  The first
was within the last year (on a BSD license).  All the people to do so thus
far are in Physics.  What's the deal with that?  Don't we have a computer
science department?  I'm in engineering, so I don't know too much about
computer science at Colorado, but it's embarrasing to me that
there haven't been any major computer science projects open sourced from
our University.

Also, I noticed an email address in the header when I received this was
an address @microsoft.com.  I have heard that computer science here is
Microsoft-dominated (or funded), which would explain the stinginess. That
was just a rumor, so please correct me on that if I'm wrong.


forwarded message:
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         Open Source Software Licenses & the University

For CU faculty members interested in distributing university software
under open source licenses, there are a myriad of different license models
and terms
to consider.  The University of Colorado Technology Transfer Office is
presenting a program on Dec. 10th (Tuesday), 3:30-5:00pm, at UMC 415, that
will explore some of these issues.  Professor Phil Weiser from the CU Law
School will discuss the legal and intellectual property issues inherent in
various licenses and terms.  David Allen, AVP for Tech. Transfer will
discuss the policy and procedure for releasing faculty developed software
under open
source licenses.  Please join the TTO in fostering an environment at CU
that facilitates this important method of technology transfer.  If you
plan to attend, please RSVP with Lynn.pae at cu.edu.

                       ***Please RSVP with lynn.pae at cu.edu***

                  **For more information, see the attached flyer**

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(I lost the flyer, and it's a .doc file, so it would probably be filtered
by the list software anyway.)