Sorry for top posting. Guru, educational works require freedom to produce derivatives. Therefore cc by sa is the best license for such works.
-- GN On Oct 9, 2011 8:54 AM, "Guru गुरु" <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 08/10/11 21:34, Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) wrote: > >> On Saturday 08 Oct 2011, Krishnakant Mane wrote: >> >>> On 08/10/11 07:24, Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) wrote: >>> >>>> On Friday 07 Oct 2011, Krishnakant Mane wrote: >>>> >>>>> On 07/10/11 20:52, Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> On Friday 07 Oct 2011, Shyama Iyer wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Let me jump right into the details - >>>>>>> >>>>>>> We are into teaching various Open Source software such as Linux, >>>>>>> LaTeX, Scilab etc. through our amazing Spoken Tutorial videos.* >>>>>>> One can learn quit simply even *Python, PHP& MySQL, Libre >>>>>>> Office etc.via an easy self-learning Video tool - Spoken >>>>>>> Tutorials. Once the individual gets started he/she can master >>>>>>> the FOSS ! The audience is UGs, PGs, Res. Scholars, even >>>>>>> Teachers..of the Sciences, IT, Engg. disciplines. >>>>>>> >>>>>> Very admirable. If your content licensing is as open as your >>>>>> >>>>> @Raj, it is under creative commons. >>>>> >>>> Apologies for nit-picking, but "Creative Commons" encompasses a >>>> whole set of licences ranging from non-free to free to copyleft. >>>> >>> It's a free software license. >>> NMEICT statutes that documentation *must* be in a free software >>> license. >>> >> The software may be free (haven't checked the licence but I'm taking >> your word for it), but the content unfortunately isn't. As per the web >> site it's licensed under CC Attribution Non-Commercial, which prevents >> free and open redistribution. >> >> Please try to get the content relicensed under a fully free and open >> licence such as CC-BY, CC-SA or CC-BY-SA if you have any influence with >> the developers. That would help contributions, distribution and reuse >> of the content. >> >> Raj, > > CC attribution non commercial allows free distribution for non commercial > purposes. In this specific case, the content is primarily for educational > purposes and there are arguments for keeping educational resource > creation/sharing as a non-commercial activity. Doubtless you have your > reasons to argue why even restricting commercial use is a restriction and > against freedom, but is it not too extreme a statement to say that the > content isn't free? > > Guru > > > > > > ______________________________**_________________ > network mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.fosscom.in/**listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.**in<http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in> >
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