[LINK] "Free for Education" license

[Danny Yee]

Ann Moffatt wrote:
> have any linkers heard about ""Free for Education"
> http://www.aesharenet.com.au/FfE/ license endorsed by the education
> minister and marketed by a privatised company. "

I went along to a presentation on AESharenet once, but wasn't that
enthused -- I think I prefer the Creative Commons approach, partly
because that has some kind of international reach and partly because
the variety of licenses makes more sense to me.

The AESharenet FFE license is rather limited in the freedoms it
grants -- while FFE content is *usable* for educational purposes,
it's not reworkable -- and even the "S" license is crippled enough
("enhancements belong to the original owner") that material released
under it isn't really free (it couldn't be used in Wikipedia,
for example).  That leaves only the "U" license, which I can't see
taking off.

And as you've found, there are problems from the licensor's
perspective, too.  The FFE indemnification clause is particularly
frightening.

Danny.
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