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What if you would just publish your code on GitHub, would they seek to punish you?

by qwerty456127 8y ago

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NegativeK 8y ago
If it's their code by employment contract, they could.
_emacsomancer_ 8y ago
I doubt it, but that's not the issue. The issue is that the FSF wants a signed "ok" from the University that I can assign copyright to the FSF, and the University's Center for Technology & Venture Commercialization won't issue that. I'll wait a year or two until I'm (hopefully) tenured and then press the issue again.
- qwerty456127 8y ago
  If I were sure it's ok and the university/company is not going to be mad at me I would just publish my code as public domain and let whoever can make use of it decide on themselves. Perhaps some FSF-approved developer would pick the code up if it is useful to them.
mch82 8y ago
In some courses publishing coursework on GitHub can break academic integrity rules related to plagiarism. It’s hurt students as more hiring processes assume portfolios. CS departments are behind the times.
- eastWestMath 8y ago
  Posting your coursework on a publicly available forum is clearly academic dishonesty, what are you talking about?
  - gdhbcc 8y ago
    Am i taking crazy pills? How is publishing your work in any way dishonest?
    - Asooka 8y ago
      For a lot of those courses there's pretty much one way to solve the coursework, so all solutions are pretty similar. It's practically impossible to tell the difference between an original solution and a copied solution with the variables renamed and some code moved around. Or the student can look at the solution and reimplement it themselves, without solving it on their own. Sharing solutions can even get you expelled in many unis.
      - solveit 8y ago
        I'm going to suggest that it's on the universities to find a way around that problem. It's a real problem, but everything being publicly available online is how the world is now. Just varying assignments every year should be enough. If reasonable variations don't make the assignments challenging enough? Well the students are always going to be able to find some reasonable variation online. Starting from absolute scratch is just not a thing anymore in most fields.
        eastWestMath 8y ago
        They have found a way around that problem...they expel students who share solutions.
        qwerty456127 8y ago
        It should be on a student to choose whether or not do they want a challenge, what particular aspect and what degree they'd like to be challenged in. The job of an educational institution is to educate, whoever interested can easily invent a challenge for themselves or use an old challenge without looking at ready solutions if they so desire. Forced artificial challenge policy is questionable.
    - 8y ago

What if you would just publish your code on GitHub, would they seek to punish you?

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NegativeK 8y ago

If it's their code by employment contract, they could.

_emacsomancer_ 8y ago

I doubt it, but that's not the issue. The issue is that the FSF wants a signed "ok" from the University that I can assign copyright to the FSF, and the University's Center for Technology & Venture Commercialization won't issue that. I'll wait a year or two until I'm (hopefully) tenured and then press the issue again.

qwerty456127 8y ago
If I were sure it's ok and the university/company is not going to be mad at me I would just publish my code as public domain and let whoever can make use of it decide on themselves. Perhaps some FSF-approved developer would pick the code up if it is useful to them.

mch82 8y ago

In some courses publishing coursework on GitHub can break academic integrity rules related to plagiarism. It’s hurt students as more hiring processes assume portfolios. CS departments are behind the times.

eastWestMath 8y ago
Posting your coursework on a publicly available forum is clearly academic dishonesty, what are you talking about?
- gdhbcc 8y ago
  Am i taking crazy pills? How is publishing your work in any way dishonest?
  - Asooka 8y ago
    For a lot of those courses there's pretty much one way to solve the coursework, so all solutions are pretty similar. It's practically impossible to tell the difference between an original solution and a copied solution with the variables renamed and some code moved around. Or the student can look at the solution and reimplement it themselves, without solving it on their own. Sharing solutions can even get you expelled in many unis.
    - solveit 8y ago
      I'm going to suggest that it's on the universities to find a way around that problem. It's a real problem, but everything being publicly available online is how the world is now. Just varying assignments every year should be enough. If reasonable variations don't make the assignments challenging enough? Well the students are always going to be able to find some reasonable variation online. Starting from absolute scratch is just not a thing anymore in most fields.
      - eastWestMath 8y ago
        They have found a way around that problem...they expel students who share solutions.
      - qwerty456127 8y ago
        It should be on a student to choose whether or not do they want a challenge, what particular aspect and what degree they'd like to be challenged in. The job of an educational institution is to educate, whoever interested can easily invent a challenge for themselves or use an old challenge without looking at ready solutions if they so desire. Forced artificial challenge policy is questionable.
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