Hi Edward, > > > Is the community comfortable with Google's terms of service most notably > the > > closed ownership of the search results and the use of closed software to > > produce the search results? (Personally, I'm OK with this on the grounds > > that search results are not core content of the WE project --- our OERs > must > > always comply with the free cultural works definition). See Google's > terms > > of service: http://www.google.com/cse/docs/tos.html . > > Please quote the offending sentence on "closed ownership of the search > results". I can't find it. The worst I see is that Google would own > the metadata from a search. > > You're right -- my original paragraph is unintentionally ambiguous -- the closed ownership refers to the software, not the search results. The WikiEducator authors would retain their copyright on the content included in the search results.
Cheers WAyne -- Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. Board of Directors, OER Foundation. Founder and Community Council Member, Wikieducator, www.wikieducator.org Mobile +64 21 2436 380 User Page: http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg Skype: WGMNZ1 Twitter: OERFoundation, Mackiwg -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]
