[cc-community] Access to source material - CC-BY

Gautam John gautam at prathambooks.org
Tue Mar 10 02:07:13 EDT 2009


Hi Mike:

> You aren't required to offer source files as a CC BY licensor, but it
> obviously helps a lot to do so, and your work isn't truly a "free
> cultural work" per http://freedomdefined.org if you don't provide
> source. As to what format -- whatever you used to create the books,
> whatever you'd go and edit if you wanted to make changes.

That is our internal problem - the source files are huge - 1GB per
book and hosting it and bandwidth is a cost we cannot currently
absorb. Is there a way around this?

>> Would it suffice if the source files
>> were in PDF? Or would it suffice if we made available the source files
>> on a platform [1] that allowed for the creation of derivative works.
>
> Offering the source files on a platform like cnx.org is a very
> reasonable thing to do.

Unless this takes care of the problem above?

Thank you.

Best,

Gautam
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