development of an education license or license option for Creative Commons

[Heather Ford <hford AT csli.stanford.edu>]

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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