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On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 16:15 +0100, Robin Cornelius wrote: > On 8/18/06, Simon Williams <systemparadox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I hope so. The article which started this thread got me thinking- I'm > > going to Bristol in Oct to do computer science- is the university going > > to stop me from releasing my code to the open source community? Chances > > are that anything I do for coursework or whatever will be something that > > the community would benefit from. Are they even legally allowed to stop > > me releasing it? > > Providing you don't sign anything that waves your copyright or signs > the copyright over to the university then it is your code to do with > as you please. At Plymouth, this is part of the enrolment form - I can't remember the exact wording, but it makes it impossible to enrol without assigning copyright for anything you do as part of your course to the university. I don't know how common this is; do (any|many|most) other unis do this? bma -- 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