development of an education license or license option for Creative Commons

[David Wiley <david.wiley AT usu.edu>]

> 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.
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