[okfn-discuss] Is OpenCourseWare really open?

[Aaron Wolf]

Well, definitely OWC non-Free because of NC and ND is an issue and should
be emphasized and this brought to people's attention.

Best,
Aaron

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Aaron Wolf
wolftune.com


On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 12:44 PM, Sören Auer <auer at informatik.uni-leipzig.de
> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> While searching for interesting content we could publish and enrich on
> SlideWiki (SlideWiki.org) I found the OpenCourseWare Consortium and
> their courses:
>
> http://www.ocwconsortium.org/en/courses
>
> I dug a little, but did not find many courses really openly licensed
> according to the open definition. Most of them are CC-NC-SA or even
> CC-NC-ND, which (according to my understanding) do not conform to the
> open definition.
>
> I find the restriction to non-commercial quite unnatural and do not
> think that there are really benefits for the authors/publishers by
> limiting commercial reuse - they do not seem to offer commercial
> licenses anyway. On the other hand, allowing (small) educational
> business (e.g. in developing countries) to reuse their content could
> increase the impact of OpenCourseWare a lot.
>
> Does anyone know whether this topic was discussed somewhere already? or
> Do you think something (advocating truly open licenses for OCW) should
> be done in this regard?
>
> Best,
>
> Sören
>
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