The right license/Introduction

Doing the right thing is more important than doing things right.

In this tutorial we provide recommendations to educators on the choice of license for OER from the perspective of the OER Foundation. The OER Foundation is a "pro-freedom" educational charity based on the democratic principles of freedom of speech and freedom of choice.

The purpose of this tutorial is to provide information to assist educators and educational institutions to make informed decisions when choosing open content licenses. For the purposes of this tutorial, our discussions are limited to the Creative Commons set of licenses.

The structure of this tutorial is informed by two generic schools of thought around license choices, that is:


 * 1) Free cultural works approved licenses
 * 2) Other licenses (which do not meet the requirements of free cultural works approved content).