[TOS] Thoughts on the NC clause for college textbooks?

[Jan Wildeboer]

Quite simple in many cases. NC means read-only. The hassle of defining what 
is commercial or not and the need to clarify with the rights owner simply 
means extra work which people tend to avoid.

IMHO that should have been the point of CC - it allows downstream-only work. 
You remix, publish, use on your own with no need to ask upstream.

NC breaks that workflow.

Jan
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Subject: [TOS] Thoughts on the NC clause for college textbooks?

I'm curious what folks here think of the first 2 comments on this article:

http://opensource.com/education/10/2/flat-world-knowledge-open-college-textbooks-disrupting-traditional-textbook-publishin

The part of the discussion I found interesting was not so much the
article itself, but Karsten and Richard's comments on the NC clause in
FWK's licensing. Does the presence or absence of the NC clause actually
make a difference to you, in your classrooms, as you teach?

(For a short backstory on Karsten's stance,
http://freedomdefined.org/Definition is probably the best link to read -
it's an essay on why the NC clause is not truly "free.")

--Mel
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