Now I also started to look at the content, first off On Sunday, October 9, 2016 at 9:30:44 AM UTC+2, john_perry_usm wrote: > > (c1) The administration expresses support for, and interest in, open > textbooks. >
well, as mentioned above, open textbooks definitions usually imply that they can be used freely, like software licensed under the GPL (Sage is GPL licensed) etc. With the NC part, this then isn't an open textbook any more -- https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html#NonFreeDocumentationLicenses > even charge royalties The bunny picture on page 195 is NC licensed. What is the agreement between the copyright holder of that image and your plan regarding charging royalties and splitting them? That detail alone would make this book very proprietary, since you're now the only one with that licensing agreement between the copyright holder of that picture and nobody else has a real chance to use this book in a context like teaching (simply because it is hard to track down the person, etc.). I'm not sure if this is the intention, but I'm just mentioning this. I would like to see this book getting used somewhere else … In "Any last words" on page 10 the license is referred to as > CC-BY-SA which is what I'm arguing for. Problem is, it is incompatible with the NC of the bunny picture: https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Wiki/cc_license_compatibility -- 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.
