development of an education license or license option for Creative Commons

[David <davidpalmer AT westnet.com.au>]

Greg London wrote:

> > As I see it, the idea is to create a specific
> > children's CC licence for their own creations.
> >    
>
> erm, that is offered to them or is mandated to them?
>  
I think that's one of the questions being put to the group.


> Yeah, I'm a bit paranoid, but the idea of software
> that comes with an EULA so that the software company
> gets rights to anything really good you create,
> doesn't seem beyond the realm of possibility.
>  
There are examples now where software developers don't own the ideas 
they develop in their own time, in their own homes.

A recent case in the States, where a programmer developed a reverse 
engineering technique, that he had developed outside company time, not 
on their premises, got stolen off him, endorsed by the court, simply 
because he had developed it during the time span he'd been employed by 
that company, and therefore any idea he had belonged to them.

> Otherwise, I'd still recommend offering kids
> the OPTION of dual licensing under CC-SA and GNU-FDL.
>
> You could create a simplified version of this,
> the way CC has easy-to-read versions of their
> licenses, which then link to the full legal text.
>
> This front end to the "children's license" could
> look a lot like CC-SA's front end, except it could
> use a crayon-scribble font. Then link to the real
> license which is the legal text to dual license
> the work CC-SA and GNU-FDL.
>  
Yep, that's the sort of thing required, I think.
The common ground of communication.
Accessibility.
Regards,

David.