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Re: mods for compiling perl && perl common packages
- To: Joe Buck <jbuck at synopsys dot com>
- Subject: Re: mods for compiling perl && perl common packages
- From: Kamil Iskra <kamil at dwd dot interkom dot pl>
- Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1998 12:58:05 +0200 (EEST)
- cc: egcs at cygnus dot com
On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, Joe Buck wrote:
> For most working programmers and quite a few grad students in
> the US, the statement "I place this software in the public domain" is
> worthless (they have no power to make it) unless also signed by the
> employer, since their employer can at least in some cases assert a claim
> (universities, too, are getting greedy/desparate for funds and are trying
> to profit on the work of grad students employed as researchers).
Perhaps we're moving slightly off-topic, but I think the issue is
important enough not to make people upset about yet another mail on the
subject.
I am simply wondering how what you wrote above is actually possible? I
mean, in my country it is also true that my student projects are
intellectual property of my University. But that's all. What I do in my
own free time is my personal business and nobody can step in. How come
this is not the case in the US? How can they monopolize your free time?
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