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S12.6 Review Chapter 12

IP and licensing plan for StudyBuddy

Problem

At the end of the semester, a local education company offers to "take over StudyBuddy" and sell it to other universities. Before anyone signs anything, prepare an IP and licensing plan:

  1. Ownership: who owns what — team members' code, the university (policy?), instructors' course materials, AI-generated code, the name and logo. What must be checked and with whom?
  2. Dependency audit: what must be done with the dependency list (licences, obligations) before the software can be sold; which licence families would be a problem and why.
  3. Outbound licence options: compare (a) keeping it proprietary and licensing it to the company, (b) releasing it as open source under Apache 2.0, (c) under AGPL v3 — one advantage and one drawback each for the team, the university and future users.
  4. Content: how Buddy's use of instructors' slides (and any textbook figures in them) affects the sale.
  5. Recommendation in 4–6 sentences.

Work it out on paper, in a document or here, then compare with the model answer. Your answer stays in your browser — it is never sent to or stored on the server.

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