Well, definitely OWC non-Free because of NC and ND is an issue and should be emphasized and this brought to people's attention.
Best, Aaron -- Aaron Wolf wolftune.com On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 12:44 PM, Sören Auer <[email protected] > wrote: > Dear all, > > While searching for interesting content we could publish and enrich on > SlideWiki (SlideWiki.org) I found the OpenCourseWare Consortium and > their courses: > > http://www.ocwconsortium.org/en/courses > > I dug a little, but did not find many courses really openly licensed > according to the open definition. Most of them are CC-NC-SA or even > CC-NC-ND, which (according to my understanding) do not conform to the > open definition. > > I find the restriction to non-commercial quite unnatural and do not > think that there are really benefits for the authors/publishers by > limiting commercial reuse - they do not seem to offer commercial > licenses anyway. On the other hand, allowing (small) educational > business (e.g. in developing countries) to reuse their content could > increase the impact of OpenCourseWare a lot. > > Does anyone know whether this topic was discussed somewhere already? or > Do you think something (advocating truly open licenses for OCW) should > be done in this regard? > > Best, > > Sören > > -- > Working on LOD2 - from Linked Data 2 Knowledge: http://lod2.eu > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > Sören Auer, AKSW/Computer Science Dept., University of Leipzig > http://www.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/~auer, Skype: soerenauer > > _______________________________________________ > okfn-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss > Unsubscribe: http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/okfn-discuss >
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