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= Open Educational Resources and Creative Commons =
= Open Educational Resources and Creative Commons =
This is `open access' work, and we do not claim copyright for non-commercial uses: if the materials are useful and are used, that will give us a great deal of pleasure. If you make copies of the materials for teaching purposes, please acknowledge this manual as the source (so that other people can easily find it) and let us know how you have developed the ideas.
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|text=We should clarify the above paragraph in the light of the CC license, perhaps saying:
This is `open access' work, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike license, leaving you free to reused the materials for noncommercial purposes.
(Technically the license requires that you attribute, and shared the resulting works under a CC licenses. Perhaps we should also say that it's not just the manual, but also the present wiki that is a gift to the community: The community is not jsut able to take the manual, but can also develop the manual on here. Might be quite relevant in the light of translations.) [[User:Bjoern|Bjoern]] 20:49, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
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The present materials are an Open Educational Resource or Open CourseWare if you like. This means that the materials are licensed under a Creative Commons license, allowing you to reuse the materials provided that you:
The present materials are an Open Educational Resource or Open CourseWare if you like. This means that the materials are licensed under a Creative Commons license, allowing you to reuse the materials provided that you: