[cc-community] Access to source material - CC-BY
drew Roberts
zotz at 100jamz.com
Tue Mar 10 08:00:37 EDT 2009
On Tuesday 10 March 2009 02:07:13 Gautam John wrote:
> 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?
Speak to the folks at the internet archive and see if they would be interested
in hosting.
>
> >> 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
drew
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