The long-awaited MIT review of its processes and procedures up to and after Aaron Swartz's suicide is out.

 The report spearheaded by MIT Professor Hal Abelson was authorized by MIT president Rafael Reif in January. An initial glance shows that the report found  no wrongdoing on the part of the University or its employees.

Swartz, the 26-year-old co-founder of Reddit apparently committed suicide in New York City in January. He was the subject of 13 felony  charges for having downloaded too many documents from MIT JSTOR library .  His camp characterized those charges as a prime example of prosecutorial over reach and U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz was widely criticized for going after a flea with a bazooka.

The report appears to want to distance MIT itself from the prosecution. The school called in Cambridge police when it found out about the massive downloads and did not know Swartz was involved. Moreover, the school did not ask that federal charges be brought, and was not consulted about appropriate charges. Nor was MIT involved in plea negotiations and adopted a "position of neutrality" over the case=, refusing to issue public statements.

However, according to the report: MIT

did not consider factors including "that the defendant was an accomplished and well-known contributor to Internet technology"; that the law under which he was charged "is a poorly drafted and questionable criminal law as applied to modern computing"; and that "the United States was pursuing an overtly aggressive prosecution." While MIT's position "may have been prudent," the report says, "it did not duly take into account the wider background" of policy issues "in which MIT people have traditionally been passionate leaders."

At a memorial ceremony at MIT's Media Lab in March, Swartz's father and partner both took MIT to task for failing to use common sense in this prosecution and for withholding information from Swartz's lawyers in this case. They also urged MIT to release un-redacted documents related to the case, while MIT had maintained it needed to edit out people's names.