development of an education license or license option for Creative Commons

[Stephen Downes <stephen AT downes.ca>]

Hiya,

Perhaps Greg could be more specific about the sorts of educational uses
he believes are missed by the definition of CC-BY-NC-SA. 

-- Stephen

Greg London wrote:
> Stephen Downes said:
> > 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.
> >   
> You want to call it "educational" but you don't have to worry
> about whether it covers "educational" uses or not?
>
> This is like people calling their stuff "freeware"
> when the only thing free about it is the price.
>
> Uses that would be allowed by CC-BY-NC-SA is only a small
> subset of what fits the natural definition of educational.
>
> Find a different word that actually fits the allowed
> set of uses and I'd be fine with it. "University" or
> "PHD Paper" or something. Call it something that actually
> fits what it allows, and I'd be happy.
>
> But calling it "Education" when it isn't is like calling
> software "Freeware" when it isn't free.
>
> And there were plenty of people putting out "freeware"
> who could argue "we call it free, therefore it's free".
> Just because you have a bunch of people who want to call
> it "education" doesn't mean its education.
>
> I'd rather you simply continue using CC-BY-SA-NC
> rather than call it "Education" when it isn't.
>
>
>
>
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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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