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On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 08:42:49PM +0100, Keith Abraham wrote: > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/08/04/uk_unis_loving_linux/ > > "But a low percentage of institutions make contributions or submit > patches back to the open source community. Of universities and colleges > which do use open source software, only 14 per cent even know whether or > not they contribute to ongoing open source development. > > The difficulty for many institutions is that intellectual property > rights reside with the university, which can make handing over code > difficult. Different institutions have different policies - some use > employment contracts to enforce intellectual property rights. Metcalfe > said it was an issue universities must address." > > How do some universities get away with that? Get away with owning students/lecturers rights? It's a standard contract that you sign. You'll find it in most work contracts. Do it without breaking the GPL? As long as they don't distribute the modified binaries (or supply the source code with the binaries they distribute), there's no breaking done. Of course noone else benefits from any modifications they make. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html