Licence disagrees with Code Club website FAQ page

[andylolz]

Under “Can I see the materials before signing up?”, the Code Club FAQ page says “all of our projects are open source”.

However, the licence used for all Code Club projects (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) is not open source (due to the non-commercial limitation).

Would Code Club consider switching to a more permissive licence?

[rikcross]

Hi Andy. As no one should be able to use Code Club's projects to make money, we need the non-commercial limitation.

I think we're using lowercase 'open source' to mean that our resources are available for anyone to use and modify as they see fit, even though the non-commercial limitation excludes it from being Open Source.

[andylolz]

Thanks for your reply, @CodeClubRik. Appreciate there’s a lot going on!

I don’t want to give the impression I am some ranting person on the internet, so I won’t write a long response disagreeing. Also, these people had the same conversation, so that’s a good ref. I’d add stuff related to Code Club specifically (e.g. lesson materials are not the product; value of promoting open source).

Best to either a) mark as WONTFIX and set this aside, because there’s bigger stuff to sort, or b) discuss in person (at the Code Club meetup next week?)

[tef]

Fwiw open source and OSI™ approved licenses aren't necessarily the same. Open source, like free software, is a loaded, and rather generic term.

Doing s/open source/creative commons/ would be a quick fix, but frankly it isn't really worth much more effort in chatting.

[andylolz]

I’d be happy with @tef’s proposed fix.

[rikcross]

I'm not sure that most people understand what "creative commons" is. Andy, I think WONTFIX might be the best bet for now, as I'm not sure the current wording is causing any problems.

[andylolz]

This appears to have been resolved in e1987f13 by removing mention of Creative Commons by removing mention of open source in the FAQ.