Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Thesis work on GNU Radio

[Daniel Garcia]

My employer has agreed to sign a copywrite/IP
assignment contract so that I may work on GNU Radio.
My university has never required me to sign a
IP/copywrite agreement other than an agreement to have
my thesis published in a commercial archive as well as
our university system library. I have sent a letter to
my adviser and I am waiting for a response on that
matter.

I would like to start getting the appropriate work
filed but I can't find the forms on-line. Can someone
send me a copy of those forms or point me to a URL
where I can get more information? 


Regards,
Daniel 

--- Michael Dickens <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Jun 27, 2006, at 9:06 AM, Robert McGwier wrote:
> > If you are going to be doing this work in support
> of the GnuRadio  
> > project,  PLEASE, go ahead and get the necessary
> FSF forms now and  
> > learn how to put the needed boilerplate in all
> pieces of your  
> > source code.   Your university,  department, 
> and/or advising  
> > professor may have serious heartburn with this
> assignment of rights  
> > to FSF and then all of your effort on our behalf
> might go for naught.
> 
> Daniel - I'm a Grad student at UND, doing GR work
> for my  
> dissertation.  I haven't decided upon a specific
> topic yet, but there  
> are a few banging around which I'm investigating.
> 
> Let me emphasize the need for gaining permission
> from your  
> educational institution.  IME, -most- businesses
> (profit or non- 
> profit, educational, incorporated, LLC or whatever):
> * regard intellectual property (IP) generated by
> their  
> "employees" (staff, faculty, students, employees,
> etc...) as owned by  
> the overall "corporation" under almost all
> circumstances;
> * have a set of policies which reflect their
> specific ownership  
> guidelines, as well as how to ask for permission to
> do other than  
> what's listed in the policies;
> * have forms to fill out to deal with asking
> permission as well as  
> documenting any significant IP (e.g. patents);
> * require that any (C)'able IP include a (C) to the
> "corporation" or  
> some individual inside, so-as to maintain ownership
> of that IP by the  
> "corporation";
> * require than any (C)'able IP be left behind when
> you leave the  
> "corporation".
> 
> Most educational institutions allow for transferring
> (C) outside the  
> "corporation", with appropriate permission, so long
> as the  
> corporation can gain access to the (C)'d works in a
> manner which is  
> royalty-free ... for example an open-source license
> such as the  
> GPLv2.  The primary reason for this is to allow for
> others to use the  
> works for their educational purposes .. which is
> likely directly  
> listed somewhere in the institution's Policies
> somewhere.  Most  
> traditional businesses wouldn't allow for this
> unless it's  
> specifically required by a contract, since it allows
> competitors  
> access to IP which could be used "against" them.
> 
> Bottom line is that you should consult with your
> advisor about your  
> educational institution's IP Policy(ies), and likely
> with your local  
> office of Research / Tech Transfer / IP, or whatever
> it is called  
> there.  Only after exhausting all reasonable options
> should you just  
> go ahead and do the FSF forms ... while it's often
> easier to ask for  
> forgiveness than permission, when it comes to IP
> "they" probably have  
> more lawyers than "you", if they care to use them. 
> Good luck! - MLD
> 
> 
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