development of an education license or license option for Creative Commons

[Steve Foerster <steve AT chrysology.com>]

As I recall, one of the assumptions behind deploying an "education 
license" was that there's something in particular of which people 
automatically think when they hear the term.

It's clear now, however, that this isn't so.  Some people think that it 
ought to prevent commercial use, while others do not.  Some people think 
that it ought to restrict use of the licensed material to formal 
educational institutions, while others do not -- and worse, the 
definition of such institutions will either be a compromise that fails 
to please everyone or else so watered down as to be meaningless.

If it's the case that there's no obvious set of characteristics that an 
educational license should have, wouldn't it be better to forgo one 
altogether rather than introduce one that people might unthinkingly use 
that doesn't actually meet their objectives?

Besides, shouldn't people who are developing educational materials be 
capable of using the "Educators' and Scholars'" interface?

http://creativecommons.org/learn/artistscorners/educators

I mean, the interface isn't exactly brain surgery -- CC did a good job 
of making it easy to use, why not just let educators use it rather than 
shoehorn them into a one-size-doesn't-really-fit-all license?

-=Steve=-