[TOS] New Textbook on FOSS

MJ Ray mjr at phonecoop.coop
Tue Jan 18 10:15:43 UTC 2011


Leslie Hawthorn wrote:
> [...] Allen Tucker, Ralph Morelli and
> Trishan de Lanerolle of the Humanitarian FOSS project (http://hfoss.org)
> have produced a new textbook on teaching software development from an open
> source perspective. Sample chapters are available free of charge and under a
> Creative Commons license [...]

Thanks for the notice, but they chose the CC BY-NC-SA licence, which
hinders people who aim to earn a living working as commercial
trainers, including in the civil/social-enterprise sector.  NC is not
allowed in FOSS.  It's disappointing that a FOSS text book is NC.

TOS gets this right, being CC BY-SA.  How might it be possible to
convince these HFOSS authors to do a similar thing?

Regards,
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