development of an education license or license option for Creative Commons

[Robin <rlopmo AT pasty.com>]

Greetings,

I seem to remember in a posting to this list a long time back, that  
someone making the point that educational licences shouldn't be restricted  
to use by those in educational institutions.  This should be reiterated.   
Others besides those in universities, colleges, and other like  
institutions are doing scholarly work that would be useful, and likewise,  
those independent scholars would be making the same use of anything  
produced by those within these institutions.  The question becomes, is  
this about what is being produced (the nature of the work) or who produces  
it?  An edu licence could easily become one more way that the university  
takes proprietary hold of information, knowledge, etc.  Is it desireable  
to have a licence that only those who can prove university faculty or  
research staff could use?  The other question here is then do we establish  
two kinds of knowledge, a sort of new definition of sacred and secular?   
Questions about who uses what for what will not stay inside the ivy  
covered walls.

Robin Oye

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