Hi Ben, Yes - -such a document does not meet the free cultural works definition and the essential freedoms and therefore should not be uploaded on the site (not libre) -- its restricts the freedoms of the user to earn a living and restricts freedoms to adapt and modify.
We do have a tutorial on the meaning of free content if you need to point folk to this page: http://wikieducator.org/Wikieducator_tutorial/What_is_free_content Cheers W On 23 July 2010 01:32, Ben <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a question regarding the Creative Commons license. > > Can a document (e.g., pdf file) be uploaded to WE with the following > Creative Commons license: > > Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License. > > Since the document would be under a Noncommercial license, does this > conflict with WE's CC-BY-SA/CC-BY license? > > Thanks, > Benjamin > http://wikieducator.org/User:Bnleez > > -- > 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] -- Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. Director OER Foundation: www.oerfoundation.org Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. 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]
