[cc-education] WHY EDU ?

Wouter Vanden Hove wouter.vanden.hove at pandora.be
Mon Feb 9 18:33:09 EST 2004


Op ma 09-02-2004, om 17:25 schreef email at greglondon.com:

> For what reasons are the lessons of open source
> that were learned in the software world being
> ignored by the push to create an eductation-only 
> license?

My opinion: because of cognitive dissonance reduction.
People want to assiocate themselves with a dynamic new movement that is
proving itself succesful, but don't want to adopt the mindset that goes
with it.




Op ma 09-02-2004, om 17:44 schreef Zachary Chandler: 
> For my part, it's the promotional power of the EDU stamp, getting more people on
> board. 

"Promotional power" is orthogonal from the permisions and prohibitons in the license.
a BY-license give instructors more then enough the right to use the contents in an educational setting 
and is therefore an "educational license". The same goes for BY-SA, and BY-SA-NC. BY-ND.
Those are all educational licenses.


> but then again I work for a college.
And where do MIT-Professors work?
Mit OpenCourseWare uses BY-SA-NC.



Op ma 09-02-2004, om 18:18 schreef Alexander, Bryan: 
> Many college faculty have the sense of copyright as something external to
> them.  An edu license could bring it home, as it were.

Goes for *all* licenses they explicitly adopt.



Wouter Vanden Hove
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