Dear Dr. Wayne, Thank you very much!. This is indeed a great license policy reform in WikiEducator! - a milestone movement & moment! A loud applause!
-- Warm regards Anil http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad http://www.apletters.blogspot.com On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Wayne Mackintosh < [email protected]> wrote: > 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] -- 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]
