Of course, I'm biased, but this is an article that Fermilab's lawyers should have read before threatening me with arrest for wanting to have copies of publicly funded software that I had helped to develop. They didn't understand that our data acquisition software was so arcane and was completely useless without the hardware that our Electronics Group had produced. I'm now working with the office of the Directorate Technology Transfer folks to acquire copies so I can write a textbook. My former boss thought I could get into trouble even by writing the code from memory.
http://www.isgtw.org/feature/standing-shoulders-software-developers
