kahn academy
Joe Corneli
incompatible license. Still, a potentially quite nice resource, with
videos --
http://www.khanacademy.org/video/conic-sections--hyperbolas-2?playlist=Algebra
And a growing quantity of online exercises too!
http://www.khanacademy.org/exercisedashboard
Joe
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From: Joe Corneli <holtze...@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 5:36 PM
Subject: Re: [ka-dev] licensing?
To: khanacademy...@googlegroups.com
OK, thanks for clearing that up. Sadly this license will
significantly reduce the chances for us to collaborate at least any
time in the near future, which I think is unfortunate.
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 5:29 PM, John Michelsen <jmic...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Actually Sal switched to the Non-commercial license. You can see it at
> the bottom right of each page.
> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/
>
> John
>
> On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 9:22 AM, Joe Corneli <holtze...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I saw on http://code.google.com/p/khanacademy/issues/detail?id=718 the
>> following statement about your content license:
>>
>> "NOTE: by contributing a video, you are asserting that you own the
>> copyright to it and are distributing it under a Creative Commons
>> Attribution Share Alike license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/
>> by-sa/3.0/). That ensures that you get credit and we and others can
>> redistribute it and modify it if necessary. It is the same license
>> that Sal uses for his videos."
>>
>> I think CC-Attribution-Share Alike is a great license (it's the same
>> one we use on PlanetMath.org, where I'm on the board of directors, and
>> the same one used at Wikipedia as you probably know) -- but I must say
>> I really had to dig to find that statement about licensing, to the
>> extent that I first want to check: is it true that you use CC-By-SA
>> for all of the videos? For the entire website?
>>
>> If so, it would definitely be a good idea to make this info a little
>> easier to find, e.g. with a License tab available on every page, and/
>> or more info about licensing in the FAQ. My apologies if it's already
>> there and I just happened to miss it!
>>
>> I hope that with the same license as a basis we can find some cool
>> ways to collaborate in the future!
>>
>> Joe
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