[cc-education] Orange
David Wiley
david.wiley at usu.edu
Wed Aug 13 08:29:12 EDT 2003
In the years I spent working on the Open Publication License, the
biggest complaint we ever had was people not knowing how to represent
which options they had invoked (none, A, or B) when stating that a work
was OPL'ed. Wouter's, Miller's, and others' points about confusion
caused by a single icon that represents many things is an excellent one.
And in hindsight, it's kind of hard to believe that CC has made the same
mistake we did 4 years ago. I'm sure there will be some discussion about
this further up the tree from us.As things stand, with three options in
the infrastructure, they'll need eight seperately colored icons just to
cover the possible "licenses" which can be created using the
attribution, commercial use, and derivative work options, not to mention
the pudblic domain, founders' and other projects...
So there seems to be a feeling that cc.edu should lead out in this
particular area and just be a license unto itself, with a different
colored icon. I am easily swayed that a seperate license is a good idea
when I remember the pain caused by the OPL options. Whether or not we
can get an orange or blue or gold icon will be up to whoever manages
marketing issues for CC, I guess.
So I'll propose the following configuration for a standalone cc.edu license:
- Require educational use as per the education use clause drafted and
discussed on this list,
- Require attribution as per the present option in the standard CC
infrastructure (because academics expect citations and references),
- Disallow commercial use as per the present option in the standard CC
infrastructure (because this is what educational licenses intuitively
mean to most people), and
- Allow modifications of your work as long as others share alike as per
the present option in the standard CC infrastructure (because this is
the spirit of teaching and learning -- passing on what you know to
others who build upon and improve it).
What do you think?
D
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