Bayh-Dole?

Posted Jul 25, 2007 1:24 UTC (Wed) by dmarti (subscriber, #11625) [Link]

But big institutions can sometimes react slowly to changes -- maybe universities needed time to tighten policies and staff up their licensing departments after Bayh-Dole was passed.

(If you're at a university, maybe you should find an existing project under a reciprocal license and contribute to that instead of starting your own.)

Posted Jul 26, 2007 1:07 UTC (Thu) by njs (subscriber, #40338) [Link]

Well, I can say one thing on that, as someone who's signed UC intellectual property forms: the idea of code copyright the UC Regents being released under a free license today is... implausible. I'm sure it happens from time to time, but only if there are particular sympathetic PIs/managers involved. I suspect that some of this code is still making it into free software with a personal copyright attribution on it instead of the UC Regents copyright attribution, but at that point it disappears from an article like this's statistics.

A similar problem for these statistics is simply that there are more email providers these days. It used to be you took the university's email address and were grateful, but these days most of my classmates' emails are @gmail.com or the like. People hacking on a company's dollar are going to use their official company email address as per official or unofficial policy; students slacking off from studying don't have any comparable incentive; that could skew things.