On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 8:26 AM, Justin Riddiough
<jriddiough@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I've always turned down strictly online resources on the basis that
they don't meet our definition of FLOSS
https://schoolforge.net/free-libre-open-source-software and do not
provide the essential freedoms. Projects *could* provide the source
under appropriate licencing for many of these resources if they chose
to. I think if some organization wrote an educational tool with
Flash, and provided the flash interface on their website as well as a
section for source downloads with libre licenses - that would be
great.
Agree, it's certainly not FLOSS unless they license their web pages under some type of libre license.
The flip side is that it's extremely convenient and a wonderful
service in some cases for someone to host a number of online resources
for education. Maybe it should be part of our outreach to find some
way to connect with those services to nudge them to liberate their
resources so that we can encourage our site visitors to visit their
project.
If we come up with some other pages, possibly for links to Creative Commons resources, we might want to consider another page just for free online educational resources. We'd probably have to decide what we thought was too restrictive use-wise though. Some sites require you join to use them. Some only let you use their resources online, etc. For instance, does a dictionary/translation site give you a definition that is in the public domain that you can use in your own projects or is the definition copyrighted? Am sure we'd get some recommendations from the schoolforge-discuss list of good online educational resources if we wanted to do this in the future.