Re: Initial Developer of code written by students for a course?

On 19/02/10 17:08, Benjamin Smedberg wrote:
> Right newsgroup is probably mozilla.legal. setting followup
> 
> The correct Initial Developer is whoever owns the copyright. I am not a
> lawyer, but unless UT has some really onerous copyright policy which
> assigns student work to the university I believe the correct Initial
> Developer is the student.

Or unless the student has assigned copyright to Mozilla Messaging, or
unless the student started the file by copying some code from a file
whose ID was Mozilla Messaging.

Otherwise, bsmedberg is indeed right.

Gerv