On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 5:33 PM, Adi Kamdar <[email protected]> wrote: > CK-12, one of the biggest free textbook companies with names like Vinod > Khosla and Jimmy Wales backing it, recently changed their licenses for their > textbooks (or "Flexbooks") from CC-BY-SA to CC-BY-NC-SA. > > http://about.ck12.org/terms > > It's funny because co-founder Neeru Khosla made this comment on the Creative > Commons website last year: > > "The reason we chose to go with CC-BY-SA was because we wanted to make a > statement about openness. We believe that the Creative Commons spirit is > about openness. However, we are also thinking about donations from teachers > and writers who have done a tremendous amount of work in producing or > writing lesson plans or textbooks. When we approached these teachers or > writers their concern was, how would they protect their work if a publisher > takes their work with only attribution? They wanted to see the improvements > made to their original contribution “back in the commons”. This is when we > realized that we had to respect this genuine perspective and make them feel > comfortable. Hence the choice of license! One thing we have continued to > advise and educate our Author Donors is to stay out of the Non-Commercial > clause. This is in the spirit that the non-commercial clause makes the > content stale and obsolete over a period of time." > > http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/14141 > > So much for that. As far as I can tell, the change occurred recently, and > they haven't blogged about it or explained the change. > > Thoughts?
My thoughts are "that is very lame." Is Josh Gay on this list? I don't know if he still works there, but I'd be interested in hearing what he has to say. > > -Adi > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss > > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss
