Learning Commons Resources License Selection Research

Some questions to answer:

• What licenses should be available?

• How does someone choose the right one? Do we create a resource explaining this? License selection can have some consequences (i.e. can not revoke a CC license once given)?

• What licenses are coops already using?

• If they haven't considered a license, what features are important to them? What are their concerns?

Some possible licenses to consider:

• CC and derivatives

• ECL

• Public Domain

• Copyright

License chooser exemplars:

• Choose an open source license (for code) - https://choosealicense.com/

• Creative Commons license chooser (for content) - https://creativecommons.org/choose/

• Freedom Defined list of licenses (incl. table) -https://freedomdefined.org/Licenses

• Civic Commons - http://wiki.civiccommons.org/Choosing_a_License/