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____/ JeffM on Wednesday 18 Nov 2009 03:05 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>Open-source textbooks ease barriers for students
>>
> These books don't appear to be about programming,
> so I assume they don't contain any source code.
> It'd be nice if folks learned that
> the "source" in "Open Source" refers to code
> and they discovered the term "Open" or "Copyleft".
>
>>Universities launch Open Library Environment
>>
> Ah. That's better.
I think "open-source" is used here rather than "public domain" because they expect
derivatives and want back the changes. They want others to reciprocate.
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