"The Institution shall not without the prior written consent of MRL ..
incorporate .. any software that is subject to an Excluded Licence. An
“Excluded Licence” is one that requires as a condition of use,
modification and/or distribution of such software that such software (a)
be disclosed or distributed in source code form; and/or (b) be licensed
for the purpose of making derivative works; and/or (c) be
redistributable at no charge. Examples of Excluded Licences include
GNU’s General Public License (GPL) .."
"The provisions of Clauses 6.1 and 6.2 shall so far as they can be
applied thereto, also apply to the publication of software (including
source code) comprised in the results of the Research. However, such
software shall not be made available under the terms of an Excluded
Licence (as defined in Clause 8.11)"
They also claim patent ownership of any students work ..
"Subject to Clause 6.2 the University shall procure that the Thesis ..
shall be sent to MSRC's .. for approval before submission .. The
University shall make such amendments or deletions before submission,
publication or presentation, or delay submission, publication or
presentation by fourteen (14) days to give MSRC time to apply for patent
protection for any such Resulting IPR (if requested)"
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/collaboration/global/europe/apply-europe.aspx
If this was in place at Stanford University, Microsoft would have ended
up owning Larrys and Sergeys' Google ?
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