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Re: Tex IP attribution error on startup page
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Phillip Long)
Wed May 7 16:05:58 2003
Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 16:05:56 -0400
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From: Phillip Long <longpd@MIT.EDU>
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Hi Greg: I'm at a bit of a disadvantage here as I'm relaying a message
from a voice mail and in the interest of not letting sit in my queue
while I'm visiting at Princeton, I opted to convey as much as I know to
you to get the ball rolling. You're questions are helping me refine
what I need to get from the library who instigated the request. That's
good. I'll get further info over the next day or so and clarify the
request on Friday.
Thanks,
phil
On Wednesday, May 7, 2003, at 03:37 PM, Greg Hudson wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-05-07 at 15:03, Phillip Long wrote:
>> Hi: The Library has informed me that the start up page for Tex has a
>> statement that says that the Intellectual Property ownership of stuff
>> written in Tex is owned by the student. They claim that this should
>> read that the ownership of things written in Tex belongs to the
>> Institute, not the individual.
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by the "tex startup page." Users who run
> tex
> do not automatically receive any message about owership of intellectual
> property as far as I know (contrary to what Oliver said).
>
> Friends of mine theorize that this issue might be about the thesis
> templates for tex. To the best of my knowledge, the ownership of
> theses
> varies from department to department and depending on other
> circumstances such as whether the institute funded you while you wrote
> it. The thesis templates are located in the thesis locker, which I
> believe falls under the purview of the consultants and/or the faculty
> liaisons, not the release team.
>
> The idea that anything an MIT student writes specifically in TeX
> belongs
> to the institute is bizarre. TeX is freely available software; we
> happen to support an installation of it on Athena, but I can't see any
> reason why we'd want to assert ownership of material written using that
> particular tool.
>
>
Phillip D. Long, Ph.D. -- longpd@mit.edu
Senior Strategist for the Academic Computing Enterprise
MIT - N42-005 -- voice:617-452-4038
77 Massachusetts Avenue (street 211 Mass. Ave.) -- fax: 617-253-8665
Cambridge, MA 02139
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Hi Greg: I'm at a bit of a disadvantage here as I'm relaying a message
from a voice mail and in the interest of not letting sit in my queue
while I'm visiting at Princeton, I opted to convey as much as I know
to you to get the ball rolling. You're questions are helping me refine
what I need to get from the library who instigated the request. That's
good. I'll get further info over the next day or so and clarify the
request on Friday.
Thanks,
phil
On Wednesday, May 7, 2003, at 03:37 PM, Greg Hudson wrote:
<excerpt>On Wed, 2003-05-07 at 15:03, Phillip Long wrote:
<excerpt>Hi: The Library has informed me that the start up page for
Tex has a
statement that says that the Intellectual Property ownership of stuff
written in Tex is owned by the student. They claim that this should
read that the ownership of things written in Tex belongs to the
Institute, not the individual.
</excerpt>
I'm not sure what you mean by the "tex startup page." Users who run
tex
do not automatically receive any message about owership of intellectual
property as far as I know (contrary to what Oliver said).
Friends of mine theorize that this issue might be about the thesis
templates for tex. To the best of my knowledge, the ownership of
theses
varies from department to department and depending on other
circumstances such as whether the institute funded you while you wrote
it. The thesis templates are located in the thesis locker, which I
believe falls under the purview of the consultants and/or the faculty
liaisons, not the release team.
The idea that anything an MIT student writes specifically in TeX
belongs
to the institute is bizarre. TeX is freely available software; we
happen to support an installation of it on Athena, but I can't see any
reason why we'd want to assert ownership of material written using that
particular tool.
</excerpt><fontfamily><param>Helvetica</param>Phillip D. Long,
Ph.D. -- longpd@mit.edu
Senior Strategist for the Academic Computing Enterprise
MIT - N42-005 -- voice:617-452-4038
77 Massachusetts Avenue (street 211 Mass. Ave.) -- fax: 617-253-8665
Cambridge, MA 02139</fontfamily>
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