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Stop the inclusion of proprietary licenses in Creative Commons 4.0 (freeculture.org)

Stop the inclusion of proprietary licenses in Creative Commons 4.0 (freeculture.org)

Posted Aug 29, 2012 14:05 UTC (Wed) by reddit (guest, #86331)
In reply to: Stop the inclusion of proprietary licenses in Creative Commons 4.0 (freeculture.org) by grantingram
Parent article: Stop the inclusion of proprietary licenses in Creative Commons 4.0 (freeculture.org)

Well, obviously the use would be for books, Wikipedia articles or other kinds of material designed to teach the knowledge contained in the research paper to a wide audience.


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Stop the inclusion of proprietary licenses in Creative Commons 4.0 (freeculture.org)

Posted Aug 29, 2012 16:56 UTC (Wed) by grantingram (guest, #18390) [Link]

O.k. but the underlying data is still more important. Otherwise your textbook or Wiki article is going to be a jumbled mess. Authors use different symbols on graphs to mean the same thing (for example) and you rapidly end up with a confusing mess of different symbols...

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