Comments on: License to ________

By: Alan Levine aka CogDog

Alan Levine aka CogDog — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 18:37:51 +0000

Hey Clint, I am really glad you brought this up, as it was something needing to be bantered about. And yes, we could easily pop a creative commons license on the site.

I just added a statement to our about page to explain the implied sharing
http://assignments.ds106.us/about/

and updated the submission form to let people know they are sharing what they share
http://assignments.ds106.us/submit-an-assignment/

By: Submitting OERs using the OER Commons bookmarklet | ClintLalonde.net

Submitting OERs using the OER Commons bookmarklet | ClintLalonde.net — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 18:13:44 +0000

[...] actually find the license type on the site. So a quick tweet to Alan and, well… you can read for yourself how he feels about sharing these resources for [...]

By: Clint

Clint — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 18:02:16 +0000

Well, since I provoked the response, I guess I should clarify why I asked. I was working on a blog post about submitting a resource to the OER Commons, and wanted to use the DS106 Assignment library as an example to submit. Submitting to OER asks for types of license, hence my question to you since it wasn’t explicit on the website.

I’m hesitant to comment beyond that because my intent wasn’t to draw attention or question or criticize in any way the lack of license on the site. The site is actually secondary to what the post is about (hence my DM to you about not wanting to open a can of worms, but apparently…) and I don’t want to say something that might be construed as detracting from the awesome work that has been done enabling the collection of these resources, and making these resources available. In fact, my intent of using the ds106 assignment archives as an example in my blog post was (in my own meager way) try to bring a bit more attention to this incredible bit of work.

I do want to respond to your point that “we do not recognize when it implies “yes”?” by saying a a great deal of why I recognize the yes implication is simply because I have followed you and Jim for years and know, from your work, how you feel about this issue. In fact, both of you have greatly influenced how I feel about sharing. But for others who do not know you or how you feel about it, maybe the implicit yes isn’t so clear? Might that actually hurt the possibilities that the resources would be reused by others?