[seul-edu] Re: Open Source Education Project

["Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>]

Adam Cody <acody@lucent.com>:
> Eric,
> 
>  I hope you get the chance to read this. I'm writing to you because of a
> personal project I hope to start or merge with the SEUL-edu group. My
> project outline of ideas is at http://linuxlots.com/~ajcody . It's still
> an outline so excuse the mess.
>  I was hoping to wait awhile to contact you and then to have someone
> from seul-edu do that as a message from the group. But I came across
> http://eldred.ne.mediaone.net/support.html and on the site they
> reference the objections the opensource (tm)  advocates had against
> their project and that it wasn't within the open source ideals. Why?
> Because their cause is documentation and books?
>  I assume it was. I would like to know why there would be a line draw
> between books and application source code. In my project goals; I would
> like to say a math book from 1890 is "opensource (tm)" and you can read
> it , spread it, and so forth. But you may also take the content and
> splice it up so one can use a Zope application server to push out math
> applications to children. Books and their content can make their way
> into applications. We need a way to integrate them by a license I
> believe or have opensource.org become clearer on the subject and include
> documentation projects as well.
>  I'll stop here until I can get some feedback or if you want to post to
> the seul-edu mailing list to get a better discussion going.
> 
> Thanks for your time and especially all your great work,
> 
> Adam Cody
> 
> Simple End User Linux - Education
> http://www.seul.org/edu/

I have no idea what you are talking about, and was totally confused by
some of the assertions about what open-source advocates have supposedly
domne on the page you reference.

Have you looked at the Open Publication License or the Open Content License?
Both of these are attempts to systematize the sort of thing you are talking
snout.  I helped write one of them.
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