[calibwam]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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.