Re: GPL & Binary
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jo=E3o_Pinheiro?= <MailingLists@JoaoPinheiro.org> wrote:
> I'd rather not take any risks on this, specially considering what
> happened to a friend of mine last year. A student stole his source while
> he was away from the laptop and submitted it himself. The result was
> that both both of them got kicked out of the subject even though the
> other guy admitted that he had stolen the source and my friend proved
> that he had coded it himself. They completely disregarded such proof and
> forced my friend to take the entire subject again.
Your academy sounds broken. If you care about their approval,
there's not probably nothing you can do without asking them
and doing exactly what they want. You seem to believe your plan
will be controversial, so check with them beforehand. Maybe it
would be less risky to wait until your course marks are given?
Another problem is that some academies are trying to get
copyright assignment from students as part of their general terms
of entry. They have one eye on being able to "commercialise" it
all later, but most of it is left to rot. The far-sighted ones are
already correcting that and issuing under a "default" liberal
licence after N months, but check your academy's regulations.
If you care about their actions, ask them and get it in writing.
Personally, I'd publicly flame them to a well-done crisp for what
they did to your friend, if it's really as bad as you say. But
I'm unreasonable like that :-)
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