development of an education license or license option for Creative Commons

[Stephen Downes <stephen AT downes.ca>]

Hiya,

I reiterate the proposal I accepted in October, 2003.
https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/cc-education/2003-October/000075.html

It is true that the definition of 'educational' is fuzzy, but because 
this proposal
is the By-NC-SA license rebranded as 'educational' we need not worry about
whether a use counts as 'educational' or not.

It is true that the definition of 'non-commercial' is fuzzy, however, 
this is an
objection to the Creative Commons as a whole and not the education license
in particular, and that being the case, there is and will be a good body of
precedent to define, through use, the concept of non-commercial.

David Wiley writes, "I therefore propose we rebrand the By-NC-SA as the
Creative Commons Education License, and create a special commons deed
for anyone using the license (i.e., add some contextual language to the 
human
readable part of the license - e.g., the way the new wiki license beta 
has been
handled)."

I second this proposal and will support the CC-Education license thus
defined.

-- Stephen

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Stephen Downes ~ Senior Researcher ~ E-Learning Research Group
National Research Council Canada ~ Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada
http://www.downes.ca  ~  stephen AT downes.ca
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