[cc-education] A new hope for cc.edu

Stephen Downes stephen at downes.ca
Sun Apr 3 21:39:17 EDT 2005


Hiya,

Perhaps Greg could be more specific about the sorts of educational uses
he believes are missed by the definition of CC-BY-NC-SA.

-- Stephen

Greg London wrote:

>Stephen Downes said:
>  
>
>>It is true that the definition of 'educational' is fuzzy, but because
>>this proposal is the By-NC-SA license rebranded as 'educational' we
>>need not worry about whether a use counts as 'educational' or not.
>>    
>>
>
>You want to call it "educational" but you don't have to worry
>about whether it covers "educational" uses or not?
>
>This is like people calling their stuff "freeware"
>when the only thing free about it is the price.
>
>Uses that would be allowed by CC-BY-NC-SA is only a small
>subset of what fits the natural definition of educational.
>
>Find a different word that actually fits the allowed
>set of uses and I'd be fine with it. "University" or
>"PHD Paper" or something. Call it something that actually
>fits what it allows, and I'd be happy.
>
>But calling it "Education" when it isn't is like calling
>software "Freeware" when it isn't free.
>
>And there were plenty of people putting out "freeware"
>who could argue "we call it free, therefore it's free".
>Just because you have a bunch of people who want to call
>it "education" doesn't mean its education.
>
>I'd rather you simply continue using CC-BY-SA-NC
>rather than call it "Education" when it isn't.
>
>
>
>
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Stephen Downes ~ Senior Researcher ~ E-Learning Research Group
National Research Council Canada ~ Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada
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