On Sunday, October 9, 2016 at 9:30:44 AM UTC+2, john_perry_usm wrote: > > (a) The tentative license is CC-BY-NC-SA, unless someone convinces us > that's a bad idea. >
This is indeed a very bad idea, and even not really recommended by creative commons related people. The point is that it violates those basic rules for "free/open content", and hence it would be impossible to use this book in settings like wikipedia or teaching. wiki https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/NonCommercial $6.1 of http://www.opensourcejahrbuch.de/download/jb2006/chapter_06/osjb2006-06-02-en-moeller.pdf The use of an -NC license is very rarely justi able on economic or > ideological grounds. It excludes many people, from free content communities > to small scale commercial users, while the decision to give away your work > for free already eliminates most large scale commercial uses. If you want > to obtain additional protection against large scale exploitation, use a > Share-Alike license. This applies doubly to governments and educational or > scienti c institutions: content which is of high cultural or educational > value should be made available under conditions which will ensure its > widespread use. Unfortunately, these institutions are often the most likely > to choose -NC licenses. Call for getting rid of NC and ND licensing of CC by the free culture foundation http://freeculture.org/blog/2012/08/27/stop-the-inclusion-of-proprietary-licenses-in-creative-commons-4-0/ The NC clause is vague <http://news.cnet.com/8301-13556_3-9823336-61.html> > and survives entirely on two even more misinformed ideas. First is > rightsholders’ fear of giving up their copy monopolies on commercial use, > but what would be considered commercial use is necessarily ambiguous. Is > distributing the file on a website which profits from ads a commercial use? > Where > is the line drawn > <http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/cc-licenses/2005-April/002215.html> > between commercial and non-commercial use? In the end, it really isn’t. Also a blogpost by Kathi Fletcher http://kefletcher.blogspot.co.at/2011/10/why-not-nc-non-commercial.html -- h -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-edu" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-edu+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-edu@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-edu. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
