[Oer-community] On-line education is using a flawed Creative Commons license

Steve Foerster steve at hiresteve.com
Mon Nov 26 15:33:13 MST 2012


Rory wrote:

> The NC license is NOT open. It is restricted. No one can legally
> enclose a CC -BY  work. Adding an NC restriction to the content
> does not make it more open. It makes it less open.

Exactly so.  All restrictions dampen how widely a work can be spread and
the NC restriction is no exception.

-=Steve=-


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