[TOS] New Textbook on FOSS

[Allen Tucker]

Hello,

I want to correct a couple of points made on this thread.  

First, the third author on our textbook is Chamindra de Silva, not Trishan de Lanerolle.

Second, the free sample chapters are made available by CRC Press, which owns a conventional copyright on the entire book.  A year ago, the authors requested that CRC release  a PDF for the entire book under a Creative Commons license, but CRC was unwilling to do that.

Third, thanks to MJ Ray, I am now better informed about Creative Commons Licensing and so have fixed the license on our site myopensoftware.org to read CC BY-SA rather than CC BY-NC-SA.

Many thanks to Leslie and MJ for acknowledging our textbook project on the TOS mailing list and pointing out the licensing issue.  

Please feel free to contact me if you have other questions about our textbook.

Best wishes,
Allen Tucker
(for Ralph Morelli and Chamindra de Silva)

From: MJ Ray <mjr at phonecoop.coop>
Date: Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 5:15 AM
Subject: Re: [TOS] New Textbook on FOSS
To: tos at teachingopensource.org


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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