Re: [LAD] students and copyright

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re all,

On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 03:00:20PM +0200, Arnold Krille wrote:

> I disagree (from expirience in writing software in a science
> project) mostly because half a year (which seems to be the normal
> timespan a student is available with internships or thesis) is to
> short to successfully start and finish(!) a project.

of course there is a substantial difference between a full BA, a 3
years MA or a short internship / stage. we should definitely draw a
line around what we are talking about.

> And that doesn't even include supporting further development over
> time. These are the things a long-term maintainer (aka director:)
> does.

yep. and where do you learn to be a director and commit to long-term
projects? :) seldom i've had the opportunity to make my long-term
innovative project (and well succesful, in some cases) accepted by
professors at school, rather than being invited to contribute to
professors' projects for the limited time span i was following their
course.

at last i believe both approaches are useful: learn how to contribute
to an existing project as well how to structure a new one - and even
to make different projects interoperable, whenever complementary in
their functionality. my argument is that in schools the latter is
often neglected, probably because the professors are often
concentrated on their own projects.

in general i disregard lack of long-term commitment in students, but
how would you ever learn to direction a project whose creator is your
professor, even payd to mantain it over time? maybe fork it :) if it's
GNU GPL'ed :)

ciao

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