[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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