Creative Commons No-Derivatives Licenses

Creative Commons No-Derivatives (by-nd-*) violate principle 3., “Reuse”, as they do not allow works, in part or in whole, to be re-used in derivative works.

Creative Commons licenses with the Noderivs stipulation include: * Attribution-NoDerivs (by-nd) * Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (by-nc-nd)

Creative Commons NonCommercial

Creative Commons NonCommercial licenses (by-nc-*) do not support the Open Knowledge Definition principle 8., “No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor”, as they exclude usage in commercial activities.

Creative Commons licenses with the non-commercial stipulation include: * Attribution-Noncommercial (by-nc) * Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (by-nc-sa) * Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (by-nc-nd)

Project Gutenberg License

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Used on Gutenberg’s ebooks of public domain texts. It is non-open because it restricts commercial use. Note that the license only applies if you continue to use the Gutenberg name – if you remove the licensing information and any reference to Project Gutenberg then the resulting text is open.

Discontinued Licenses

Creative Commons Developing Nations License

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The license has been discontinued. Creative Commons developing nations license does not support principle “7. No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups”.

EFF Open Audio License

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http://www.eff.org/IP/Open_licenses/eff_oal_version1.php

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As of v2.0 merged with CC by-sa license: ‘EFF designates the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license as version 2.0 of the Open Audio License.’ source on eff site

Open Publication License

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Discontinued in favour of Creative Commons. In late 2004 the site was overhauled and turned into a portal to open academic content. In August 2007, David Wiley, the author of opencontent lauched the draft Open Education License.

License is not conformant if either options A or B are added to the main body of the license. Option A prohibits ‘substantive modification’ and option B prohibits commercial use of printed copies.