Open Source vs. Academic Dishonesty?

Raul654 asks: "My university has a very vague Academic dishonesty policy. I have a small webpage with some code I have written (mostly C/C++ and Verilog), GPL of course. Someone warned me, rightfully so, that I might be in violation of the policy. Long story short, I have an appointment with Judicial Affairs in a few days (my doing), and I want to go in there with some persuasive arguments for why I shouldn't have to pull the page." The problem here is that the code on his webpage is code from previous programming projects. It basically boils down to the tradeoff of a student who feels pround about his work and a professor who doesn't want to interfere with the lesson plan he probably worked hard to produce. How do you feel about this?

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Re:Ownership

[QuantumG]

That is basically the crux of their arguement, that I am giving students the capability to cheat.

Bah! So do text books.
I know that one overzealous computer science professor actually makes his students sign contracts that give legal ownership of their code to him to prevent just this.

And I believe that would not be a legal contract. They tried to do that at my university. The school was sued and they lost. It is no longer the policy.