On 3/15/2011 8:11 PM, Jack Howarth wrote:
FSF legal could solve these problems in a minute. Don't shove a blanket
dislaimer for all employees at the employer. Give them two options to
sign...one blanket and one for only the specific employee. I have little
sympathy for the copyright office on this as they preconfigured the
paperwork to cause this exact problem.
Well I must say I have some sympathy for the FSF's position here. It is
SO much simpler if an organization will sign a blanket disclaimer, since
then each employee does not have to go through a lot of nonsense.
Can you give a clue as to why UC objects to signing the blanket
disclaimer. I dont have too much sympthy for universities that
try to desperately protect their "intellectual property rights"!
Universities should be about open discourse and sharing of ideas.
