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license option #librefest

Suzanne Wakim
 

We are using content from this site: https://thebrain.mcgill.ca/flash/a/a_11/a_11_cl/a_11_cl_hor/a_11_cl_hor.html

The "copyleft" link at the bottom of the page goes to his license choice.  It's basically non-commercial and a requirement to attach a copyleft logo to the page.  Can we create a custom license in the drop-down that has those elements?

Side note: we contacted the author and the text is his.  The images are problematic, but we are not using those without confirming the original source.

Delmar Larsen
 

Yeah that is possible. There is no such license though. If you are in communication with them, you may want to ask if they are interested in adopting a more formalized "copyleft" license like CC NC 4.0 instead (I think that exists, although almost everyone wants a BY clause).

Delmar

On 7/20/2021 8:34 AM, Suzanne Wakim wrote:

We are using content from this site: https://thebrain.mcgill.ca/flash/a/a_11/a_11_cl/a_11_cl_hor/a_11_cl_hor.html

The "copyleft" link at the bottom of the page goes to his license choice.  It's basically non-commercial and a requirement to attach a copyleft logo to the page.  Can we create a custom license in the drop-down that has those elements?

Side note: we contacted the author and the text is his.  The images are problematic, but we are not using those without confirming the original source. 

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Suzanne Wakim
 

Our last email with him basically said "yes it's mine but my grant ran out so I can't be bothered to deal with it any more."  He's not going to do any more work on it (as far as I can tell).
Josh Halpern
 

Copyleft is not a license in the sense of Creative Commons at least according to this


and this


That being said, it looks as if you can use the GPL as the equivalent and simply put the symbol at the bottom of the pages if you want.

Josh Halpern

On Tue, Jul 20, 2021 at 11:34 AM Suzanne Wakim <wakimsu@...> wrote:

We are using content from this site: https://thebrain.mcgill.ca/flash/a/a_11/a_11_cl/a_11_cl_hor/a_11_cl_hor.html

The "copyleft" link at the bottom of the page goes to his license choice.  It's basically non-commercial and a requirement to attach a copyleft logo to the page.  Can we create a custom license in the drop-down that has those elements?

Side note: we contacted the author and the text is his.  The images are problematic, but we are not using those without confirming the original source.



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https://officehours.libretexts.org/


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