Your own practice
When creating OER or adapting material, you should always consider whether it is appropriate to apply a more restrictive licence to your work. Think about the photo ‘90fied’ from earlier in this unit. This adaptation was based on the photo ‘Creative Commons 10th Birthday Celebration San Francisco’ which is licensed CC BY 2.0. When licensing the adaptation ‘90fied’ it is permitted to apply a more restrictive licence. However, is applying a restrictive licence in the spirit of openness or the original license? If we want to enable reuse in all contexts, where possible we should license our version of the resource CC BY too.
You also need to consider how easy it will be for someone to reuse your new version of a resource. To help others, avoid applying licences described as ‘not recommended but technically possible’ to OER you have adapted.
As we saw in Section 5.2, you should also consider making your resource available in different formats and on different platforms. This will enable people to reuse it more easily.
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