development of an education license or license option for Creative Commons

["Greg London" <email AT greglondon.com>]

David Wiley said:
> Noncommercial use means things like selling
> printed copies of the licensed works for profit.
> Use by teachers in classrooms, by students,
> and by people with no institutional affiliation
> is strongly encouraged.

Commercial use by teachers doesn't fit CC-BY-NC-SA.
What you propose isn't simply rebranding.

It would require a new license that would allow
commercial uses for educational purposes
but prohibit other commercial uses.

If you are willing to allow commercial use
for educational purposes, why exactly would
you prohibit other commercial uses?











Of course noncommercial doesn't
> only mean teaching and learning; many types of research are covered by
> the definition as well.
>
> In many ways we're better off having waited to engage in this
> conversation again, as there is now a significant amount of
> educational material the BY-NC-SA has been applied to, and some common
> practice has already emerged among the licensors. I think it would be
> a great way to begin marketing the Education License to have these
> very visible programs begin promoting it for us (switch from listing
> BY-NC-SA on their pages to listing the Education License).
>
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