Harald If I understand correctly, the mistake I made was confusing "noncommercial" with "not-for-profit." Thank you for pointing out that very dumb mistake. I have to emphasize this mistake really is on me; I added NC right before uploading it, without thinking too much about it. That explains why you saw CC-BY-SA somewhere else: that was the original plan. I will change that back.
*Thank you very much* also for noticing the issue with the bunny picture. My confusion on "noncommercial" v. "not-for-profit" is the main reason for that. One of the links you provided suggests that I was on pretty good grounds with that, but now that you point it out I can see that this could be an issue. I have contacted the author via flickr mail to see if he's willing to license it to us under CC-BY-SA, but he hasn't uploaded a photo for more than 2 years, so there may be no reply. I image I'll have to change the picture (we can generate something similar ourselves, and one co-author may well be happy to immortalize his bunny. john perry On Sunday, October 9, 2016 at 5:59:12 AM UTC-5, Harald Schilly wrote: > > 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.
