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rmc
on Sept 28, 2012
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California passes groundbreaking open textbook leg...
It would be better if they choose CC-BY-SA, which requires that derived works be under that licence aswell.
(Neither CC-BY nor CC-BY-SA block commerical use, and that's fine IMO)
duskwuff
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Indeed, one example of commercial use that's possible (and desirable!) under these licenses is printing the books and selling them. Blocking that would make it harder to get the books into students' hands.
simonbrown
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If it was share-alike, why would companies develop tutorials, since they could be re-published by other companies at close to cost price?
rmc
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There are loads of companies the make money off open source software. Same principal.
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(Neither CC-BY nor CC-BY-SA block commerical use, and that's fine IMO)