Hi Everyone, Since the inception of the WikiEducator project we have subscribed to the values of free cultural works licensing and this has been adopted as a matter of policy.
WE respect all works in the public domain and the rights and intentions of authors to dedicate their creative works to the public domain with worldwide application. We strongly encourage all WikiEducators to respect the intentions of original authors who dedicate their work to the public domain, by retaining the public domain attribution for these works. With thanks and appreciation to Jim Tittsler, the OER Foundation has now implemented an easier and improved way to signal public domain pages in WikiEducator. Now any page in the wiki using the [[Category:Public Domain]] should now display a "Public Domain" icon and link to the relevant page providing details on how WikiEducator manages works in the Public Domain. It is also now possible to use the Public Domain Deed (CC0) from Creative Commons for dedicating new works to the public domain by adding [[Category:CC0]] to the respective pages. You will find more information here: http://wikieducator.org/WikiEducator:Public_Domain The same feature can be used for Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) pages by adding [[Category:CC-BY]]. This will remove the display of the default CC-BY-SA icon and link to the respective license deed. In the absence of adding these Categories, WikiEducator assumes the default CC-BY-SA license agreed by users when posting their edits. The following page has been updated to reflect these improvements: http://wikieducator.org/WikiEducator:Copyrights WE are proud to support the freedoms of users to use free content licenses and public domain declarations. Cheers Wayne -- Wayne Mackintosh <http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg>, Ph.D. Director OER Foundation <http://www.oerfoundation.org> Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. Founder and elected Community Council Member, Wikieducator<http://www.wikieducator.org%20> Mobile +64 21 2436 380 Skype: WGMNZ1 Twitter <http://twitter.com/#%21/Mackiwg> | identi.ca<http://identi.ca/waynemackintosh> -- 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]
