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On Friday 18 August 2006 15:40, Simon Williams 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? > As far as I'm aware if they set the task and you use their computers to code it, they own the copyright... But I wouldn't worry. Having just finished a computer-sciency course myself, I only did one piece of work that was worth releasing - which I just did, without consulting my university (I chose the project and coded it on my own machine, so I figure they have no legitimate claim over it). Most of the stuff I wrote at uni would be of no practical use to other people - little games, simple client-server apps and so on designed to help you learn aspects of the language. Regards, David. -- David Johnson www.david-web.co.uk - My Personal Website www.penguincomputing.co.uk - Need a Web Developer? -- 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