Dear John,
Harald has sent you some great info and advice on licenses. Its a complicated
topic.
I personally like CC BY-SA, and I also frequently use the GFDL (GNU Free
Documentation License) for longer works, even though it can complicate license
compatibility. Here is an incomplete set of posts where I say more:
http://www.beezers.org/blog/bb/category/licenses/
My advice would be to use Amazon's CreateSpace (easy) or Ingram's Lightning
Source (professional) for print-on-demand copies. Add a $5 or $10 "royalty" for
distribution as you suggest (scholarship, Sage) and be totally up-front on the
amount and destination. I'd be surprised if anybody tried to under-cut you, or
if they would be very successful.
For peer-review, the Open Textbook Inititaive at the American Institute of
Mathematics does exactly that. They include Grg Bard's new "Sage for
Undergraduates" book, so there is at least one appropriate category for your
text. They also have a ton of good advice for authors.
http://aimath.org/textbooks/
Rob
On 10/09/2016 07:48 AM, john_perry_usm wrote:
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
<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
<https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Wiki/cc_license_compatibility>
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