"It is tempting to think that references to "open content" have a
meaning similar to those for "open source". It is equally tempting to
want to make use of 'open content' in an open source project. Do not
yield to temptation!
Open content is a term devoid of any useful meaning. It is used to refer
to a broad range of licensing schemes, including Creative Commons (CC)
and AESharenet, which are overwhelmingly open source incompatible. Using
"open content" in an open source project is, in most cases, likely to
result in the project ceasing to be open source because of licence
restrictions on the content. The most popular of these restrictions is
the so called "noncommercial" restriction of the CC licences - a
discriminatory provision which is anathema to the open source
definition. Unfortunately there are other more subtle problems which may
render even apparently unobjectionable CC licences - such as BY
(Attribution) and BY-SA (Share Alike) - open source incompatible."
Scott, B. (2006), Open to temptation [Online], Computerworld. Available
from: <http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=85211936> [6 July 2006].
Regards
Jacqueline McNally
OOoCon2006 in Lyon (http://marketing.openoffice.org/conference/)
Are you a computer angel? (www.computerangels.org.au)
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