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>1. Code licensing is not always clear. Sometimes you are working with a code that some PhD student wrote, who left the field, whose advisor shared it with you.
by max51 4y ago
>1. Code licensing is not always clear. Sometimes you are working with a code that some PhD student wrote, who left the field, whose advisor shared it with you. Can you share this code? Not necessarily... but this problem will go away with time.
Isn't it the university who owns everything? I don't know about astrophysics, but it's a big problem in engineering. Universities have been known to patent and resell research made by msc/phd student and profit from it without paying any compensation.
- JBorrow 4y agoThis depends on the region/university/timescale/etc. Consider this: student at institution A (UK) writes code, postdoc at institution B (USA) modifies it, shared with researcher at institution C (China) who runs it for a paper first-authored by student at institution D (Germany). Who has the rights to share the code and data? Which jurisdiction would this fall under?