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  • From: Heather Ford <hford AT csli.stanford.edu>
  • To: development of an education license or license option for Creative Commons <cc-education AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [cc-education] WHY EDU ?
  • Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2004 10:19:25 -0800

At 09:44 AM 2/9/2004, you wrote:

Quoting email AT greglondon.com:

> Can someone explain WHY an Education-Only
> license needs to exist?
>
> What benefits would an education-only license
> have that would compensate for the advantages
> LOST from not using a much more public CC-BY-SA.

For my part, it's the promotional power of the EDU stamp, getting more people on
board. I guess what we have to decide if that's important enough to warrant a
degradation of the open content principle. Though I respect the alternative, I
lean in favor of the edu license especially the new draft option -- but then
again I work for a college.

I think that the benefits of an education license are significant. One, that people may want to give their products away specifically for educational use and educational use only; and two, that large software companies who also do educational work can use the license for their educational projects (adding to what Zachary has said above).

H.

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