On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 03:56:31PM -0500, Karl Fogel wrote:
> Branko Cibej <brane@xbc.nu> writes:
> > >This is the main reason I am posting here. I was hoping that
> > >someone(CollabNet?) would be willing to fill this role. There isn't really
> > >that much responsibility on the employer other than providing a contact
> > >person. There is of course no charge involved, and the result of the project
> > >is the sole property of the employer to do with as he wishes(although I
> > >would personally prefer that it be released under some OS license).
>...
> CollabNet is discussing it internally, we'll get back to you soon :-).
Our inclination is "well, certainly!" but since the person with actual
signing authority for CollabNet (Brian) is currently out of the office, it
is hard to give a definitive answer :-)
> What's up with this University, anyway? They want you to write code
> for a private firm, and they don't even insist that the result be free
> or public domain? :-) Sheesh. I'd heard before that commercialism
> corrupted academia, but apparently commercialism didn't even have to
> break a sweat.
Think "ownership and liability." By writing the code under contract with a
company, the code is owned by the company (under "work for hire"
conventions). Thus, the University accretes no liability for the code. And
since they don't own the code, they cannot mandate terms; if they *did* set
terms, then you would have a two-way business relationship and it might be
argued that the university is writing the code, and providing it to the
company under specific terms.
blah blah blah :-)
Cheers,
-g
--
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
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