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As this is an issue of copyright violation, I don't have any issue with this. A DMCA complaint fixes just this. A few years ago I got an email from a TA in a s

As this is an issue of copyright violation, I don't have any issue with this. A DMCA complaint fixes just this. A few years ago I got an email from a TA in a subject I took the year before, that they wanted me to take down solutions I hosted on Github. However, there was no provided code in the assignment, and it was basically implementations of previously known algorithms (A* among others). Not a formal takedown request, but they said I should understand that they had to use the same assignments each year, and if I were providing solutions this could be hard. My answer was that if they are worried about plagiarism, it's better that my solutions are public, as they can be checked against.

lmm 12y ago
It's not a copyright violation though, or at least not inherently. The statement of a homework problem is essentially an API, and if those are copyrightable then we're in big trouble as an industry.
- calibwam 12y ago
  Well, we can't see the code that is taken down here, but if assignment had a lot of set up code, and the assignment was to fill in some functions, there can be a copyright violation. If these repositories only included student made code, then I agree that there is a problem.
  - nickofbh 12y ago
    I'm a student in CS@Illinois and I took this class last semester. For assignment one, they gave us a library and the following where we had to make a working shell (sorry for formatting): / @file shell.c / #include <stdio.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <string.h> #include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/wait.h> #include <unistd.h> #include "log.h" log_t Log; /** * * Starting point for shell. * */ int main(int argc, char ** argv) { /** * * Analyze command line arguments * */ while(1) { /** * * Print a command prompt * */ /** * * Read the commands * */ /** * * Print the PID of the process executing the command * */ /** * * Decide which actions to take based on the command (exit, run program, etc.) * */ } return 0; } The provided code is rather sparse (by design), but the University holds copyright on it.
    - lmm 12y ago
      You can use four leading spaces at the start of each line for a code block. What you've posted doesn't look substantial enough to be copyrightable to me; the idea of writing a main containing a while loop is certainly not original to the university, and the comments would presumably not be present in this repo since they'd've been replaced by working code. I sure hope the university of Illinois doesn't own the copyright on any shell I write from now on, because that would be ridiculous.

lmm 12y ago

It's not a copyright violation though, or at least not inherently. The statement of a homework problem is essentially an API, and if those are copyrightable then we're in big trouble as an industry.

calibwam 12y ago
Well, we can't see the code that is taken down here, but if assignment had a lot of set up code, and the assignment was to fill in some functions, there can be a copyright violation. If these repositories only included student made code, then I agree that there is a problem.
- nickofbh 12y ago
  I'm a student in CS@Illinois and I took this class last semester. For assignment one, they gave us a library and the following where we had to make a working shell (sorry for formatting): / @file shell.c / #include <stdio.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <string.h> #include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/wait.h> #include <unistd.h> #include "log.h" log_t Log; /** * * Starting point for shell. * */ int main(int argc, char ** argv) { /** * * Analyze command line arguments * */ while(1) { /** * * Print a command prompt * */ /** * * Read the commands * */ /** * * Print the PID of the process executing the command * */ /** * * Decide which actions to take based on the command (exit, run program, etc.) * */ } return 0; } The provided code is rather sparse (by design), but the University holds copyright on it.
  - lmm 12y ago
    You can use four leading spaces at the start of each line for a code block. What you've posted doesn't look substantial enough to be copyrightable to me; the idea of writing a main containing a while loop is certainly not original to the university, and the comments would presumably not be present in this repo since they'd've been replaced by working code. I sure hope the university of Illinois doesn't own the copyright on any shell I write from now on, because that would be ridiculous.