I had heard this was in the works, but I didn't know it was enacted already. :(
-Sage On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 8:50 PM, Adi Kamdar <[email protected]> wrote: > I was actually talking to him a bit about it last night (he's the one who > told me). He's not too pleased, to put it lightly. > > -Adi > > > On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 8:47 PM, Conley Owens <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
