He suggested that this revenue could be used either for library acquisitions or to support campus-wide computer facilities. However, he said that the problem was that McGill considers software to be subject to patents and that is not the right category for it.
Software is intellectual property.
Therefore, under law, it is governed differently from patents which protect new inventions. There's no need for a new policy. There is, however, no specific policy on royalties. He said that this problem will be addressed very soon. The motion was defeated.