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Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] updated BBN 80211 code?
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Michael Dickens |
Subject: |
Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] updated BBN 80211 code? |
Date: |
Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:52:11 -0400 |
On Oct 15, 2008, at 11:34 AM, George Nychis wrote:
A lot of students work on GNU Radio, and we work towards a deadline
and our goal is typically to get it to work as fast as possible, not
as fast and as clean as possible. Once that deadline hits, we're
typically done :P
I second or third this aspect of "student-hood". YA aspect, as sort
of, almost, brought up by Thomas, is the university-required
licensing / intellectual-property issues. In his case (UCLA), he can
choose an open-source license (preferably BSD). In my case, ND does
not specify a license that I can pick (or not), but there is a well-
defined IP clause covering graduate student works (not undergrads, but
also faculty, staff, and so forth ... those who are being paid either
directly by ND or make significant use of ND's resources to get paid
[e.g., via a stipend]): IP is owned by the student, advisor,
department, school, and university. The only way I can donate my code
to CGRAN (or the gnuradio trunk) is with the permission of "the food
chain" all the way to the top ... which is not realistic for most
students or advisors to obtain. Most advisors at ND are not yet aware
of the "recent" addition (interpretation, really) of grad. students to
the list of IP-covered individuals, but they should be since they are
liable to "the powers that be" to make sure IP is properly disclosed
before a license (open-source or other) can be approved.
IMHO this is all quite a PITA, but it's what we have to live with and
I'm sure other students are in a similar circumstance even if they
don't know it right now.
My advice to friends / students in other universities / businesses is
to carefully check the IP policy of their institution, talk with their
advisor(s) / manager(s), and perform "due diligence" before assigning
a license and / or signing over their code to the FSF. You're more
likely to gain forgiveness if you can show how hard you tried to "do
the right thing" first.
- Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] updated BBN 80211 code?, (continued)
- Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] updated BBN 80211 code?, Frank Brickle, 2008/10/16
- Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] updated BBN 80211 code?, Eric Blossom, 2008/10/16
- Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] updated BBN 80211 code?, Frank Brickle, 2008/10/16
- Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] updated BBN 80211 code?, Eric Blossom, 2008/10/16
- Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] updated BBN 80211 code?, Greg Troxel, 2008/10/17
- Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] updated BBN 80211 code?, Eric Blossom, 2008/10/18
- Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] updated BBN 80211 code?, George Nychis, 2008/10/16
- Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] updated BBN 80211 code?, Douglas Geiger, 2008/10/15
- Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] updated BBN 80211 code?, George Nychis, 2008/10/15
- Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] updated BBN 80211 code?, Douglas Geiger, 2008/10/15
- Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] updated BBN 80211 code?,
Michael Dickens <=
- Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] updated BBN 80211 code?, Eric Blossom, 2008/10/15
- Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] updated BBN 80211 code?, John Ackermann N8UR, 2008/10/15
- Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] updated BBN 80211 code?, Douglas Geiger, 2008/10/15
- Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] updated BBN 80211 code?, Greg Troxel, 2008/10/15
- Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] updated BBN 80211 code?, Eric Blossom, 2008/10/15