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It depends on your definition of "civil servant". DoE national labs are run by contractors, such as the University of California, who have their own tech trans
by natechols 8y ago
It depends on your definition of "civil servant". DoE national labs are run by contractors, such as the University of California, who have their own tech transfer policies and offices. As a result, I can't legally use most of the software I wrote as an NIH-funded postdoc. (One of the many reasons I don't work there any more.)
- GlenTheMachine 8y agoContractors are not civil servants. It is completely true that contractor-written software is legally different and has its own release policies. For one thing, it can be copyrighted. Again, IANAL, but I assume that there would be stipulations written into the contract governing IP.