[cc-education] proliferation, balkanization

David Wiley david.wiley at usu.edu
Thu Aug 28 17:33:55 EDT 2003


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>There are many laudable goals that are nevertheless inappropriate for
>CC in my opinion. At my school, there is a program to donate physical
>books to Ethiopia. It's great, but it has nothing to do with the concept
>of the /commons/. Likewise, the proposed cc.edu license seems to me to
>violate the concept of a commons. It's not a commons if it provides a
>way of excluding people. Logically, we could next have the cc.god license,
>to be used only in churches.
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Interesting examples again.  =)

So why doesn't the traditional cc offend you? By your definition it 
can't have anything to do with the /commons/ either, since every cc 
places restrictions either on attribution, commercial use, derivative 
works, or some combination thereof. Is the public domain dedication the 
only license acceptable to you?

I realize this email could sound condescending - please understand 
that's not the intent. I'm asking this sincerely. Maybe you really 
didn't like the normal cc in the first place, and the cc.edu is just 
worse from your perspective. I could completely understand and respect that.

D
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