[TOS] Kyle Brady: Blog - How I won a Copyfight

Karlie Robinson karlie_robinson at webpath.net
Fri Jun 4 12:26:30 UTC 2010


Interesting case study of FOSS in an academic environment.

 From the blog....
>
> As a brief introduction, I'm a student at San Jose State University, 
> as a Computer Science major, in San Jose, CA.  I had a class the last 
> semester (Jan 2009 -- May 2009) called "Data Structures and 
> Algorithms", taught by Dr. Beeson, where the homework was all code, 
> submitted by a certain date to an online submission/analysis system.
>
> Throughout the semester, I posted my correct/working code publicly 
> <http://projects.kyle-brady.com/svn/listing.php?repname=sjsuProjects&path=%2Fcs146%2F#path_cs146_> 
> (project descriptions returning sometime in the near future), after 
> the due date, and didn't think much of it -- I thought exposing the 
> code to the public could be helpful for some people, as well as a good 
> employer reference for the future 
> <http://www.kyle-brady.com/tag/code-samples/>.
>
> However, I was contacted by Dr. Beeson after the semester had ended 
> (May 22, 2009), telling me to remove all public code or else he'd fail 
> me, since he considered it a violation of the Academic Integrity 
> standards.  I responded very politely, citing SJSU Policies and 
> Student Senate Resolutions/Statements:
>

The full article -
http://www.kyle-brady.com/2009/06/10/how-i-won-a-copyfight/
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