[lug] Open Source Software Licenses & the University

[Scott Herod]

Ages ago, it seems, when I was at the University I always put the
following at the top of my source code that I made available.  I did have
one bad experience with the TT office that cost me a contract so I'm glad
to see that they are offering presentation.

BTW, I recently had a paper accepted for publication which described a
software package that I had written.  Included in the materials was all of
the source.  The Journal required the copyright be transerred so I checked
with TTO about that.  They said it had never come up before.  I was quite
surprised.

Scott

On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, Daniel Webb wrote:

> 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.
>