In my PhD Thesis in Italy, I developed a software, which is released as GPL on sourceforge.net. Now, the University (through my advisor) asks me to put this software on a workstation, owned by the University, due to legal reasons. They claim they have some rights on this software, supported by the University. I received a grant. Is this normal? For me, this operation is completely pointless, since it is released under GPL?
Now, the question: which license do you apply to a software in this situation? Would you release publicly a PhD software?