Update 2007/03: There is ongoing discussion with Paul Stacey of BCcampus about a possible third license type. In the meantime we're working on a kind of "cover sheet" which could go with each LO and possibly provide slightly more restrictive conditions than the CC license.

This is a placeholder for a discussion about the commercial use clause in the CC license. This issue was identified at the 11/22 meeting. My understanding is that the CC has a clause allowing commercial use, and what we could do (according to Scott) is to petition that SOLR have a third license type, basically CC but no commercial use.

A few more thoughts about this: After some thought, I've decided this is probably a non-issue, and we should be careful that it stays that way. The reason why the commercial use clause might upset some librarians is the idea that someone might be re-using their content and making money from it. However, that's an implausible scenario. We're creating database tutorials, and no one is ever going to make money from a database tutorial. Heck, I think sometimes WE'd be willing to pay our students just to look at the tutorials. The "worst" that might happen is that a librarian at a private institution might use our learning objects. "Private" institutions include, say, Harvard, or more locally, Trinity Western. And would it be so bad if a librarian at a private institution used an learning object I'd created? Personally, I'd be overjoyed if I thought a librarian at TWU could re-use my stuff and save themselves a few hours of work.

So, in summary, I think this is a non-issue. But that's just my view ... let me know what you think.