Mel Chua <m...@redhat.com> > http://opensource.com/education/10/2/flat-world-knowledge-open-college-textbooks-disrupting-traditional-textbook-publishin > > The part of the discussion I found interesting was not so much the > article itself, but Karsten and Richard's comments on the NC clause in > FWK's licensing. Does the presence or absence of the NC clause actually > make a difference to you, in your classrooms, as you teach?
Yes, it makes a big difference. Presence of the NC clause stops me using any more of it than I would a legacy-licensed text. Now I work for a tech worker co-op and we teach on a commercial basis, so I'm pretty sure we can't use works with NC clauses. When I worked in a Further Education College, I was a contract teacher. Would that be commercial use? I'm not sure. However, most of the people I was teaching were from commercial organisations on day-release and it would have been a bit unkind to give them materials that they weren't supposed to share with their work colleagues. NC is not a creative commons. It's a creative flowerbed or creative open private park. It may be possible to act commercially there (graze cattle or whatever) but it's not part of the general consent and you have to try to get another agreement to do so. Of course, for some purposes, a flowerbed or private park is fine, but I wouldn't want them to be seen as public space. Hope that explains, -- MJ Ray (slef) Webmaster and LMS developer at | software www.software.coop http://mjr.towers.org.uk | .... co IMO only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html | .... op _______________________________________________ tos mailing list tos@teachingopensource.org http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
