Developemnt and use - Training manual

[Matt Price]

On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 23:56 +0100, Caroline Ford wrote:
> On 18/04/2008, Paul Hartman <hartman at sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 14:53 -0700, George Farris wrote:
> >  > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Training
> >  >
> >  > This site has an Instructor and Student training manual for Ubuntu.  The
> >  > license says share and add to but not for commercial use.  Why ion earth
> >  > would you not allow Educational Institutions to use this material in
> >  > classes.  I find this very strange.
> >  >
> >  > Possibly the license could be tweaked to at least allow training people
> >  > with this material.
> >  >
> >  > If anyone has any information about this I would be very interested.
> >  >
> >  > Cheers all.
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> > I do not think that Schools or colleges are considered commercial
> >  institutions. In my high school, teachers would often use materials
> >  licensed under CC.
> 
> Schools and College *are* considered commercial institutions. There
> are multiple CC licenses, CC-NC is non-free according to the normal
> free content authorities.
> 
haven't looked at the lawyer-readable licenses but wouldn't it depend on
the type of school?  in e.g. the us most schools (*not* universities)
are non-commercial under most definitions.

matt



> Caroline
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Matt Price
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