How OER are almost never OER

Posted Feb 28, 2018 7:19 UTC (Wed) by mirabilos (subscriber, #84359)
Parent article: SUNY math professor makes the case for free and open educational resources (Opensource.com)

I find the options hilarious. MyOpenMath does not even document which
licence they use (nor does Common Core), at least nowhere visibly on
their respective sites.

Worse, Open Learning Initiative is NC, as is “OER Commons”. This shows
how “open, Creative Commons-licensed content” is actually saying nothing
because it can evidently be applied to absolutely non-free content.

I wonder how this is even at opensource.com… oh wait, .com… haha… got me.

In contrast (before I’m being accused at not doing anything *again* here),
I work with organisations such as Debian and Teckids to produce truly
OSS and Free material (code and non-code) under Free, OSS, DFSG-free,
licences *and* work on enabling others to do so more easily.

tl;dr: If something says OER look at its licence *carefully*. It’s usually non-free anyway.