<div dir="ltr">Hi, all-<div><br><div>An academic publishing group called STM (The International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers) has published some "open" licenses that, well, aren't really open. In my reading, they fail both the OKFN's open definition and <a href="http://freedomdefined.org" target="_blank">freedomdefined.org</a>'s definition, so would not be acceptable on Commons or other WMF projects.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Andrés Guadamuz has written about this more here:</div><div><a href="http://www.technollama.co.uk/academic-publishers-draft-and-release-their-own-open-access-licences#" target="_blank">http://www.technollama.co.uk/academic-publishers-draft-and-release-their-own-open-access-licences#</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>I'm considering drafting a WMF blog post on this issue, because of the potential for confusion and the limitations on reuse[1]. I've also been made aware of a potential letter on the subject from a variety of related organizations that we'll consider signing on to.</div>
<div><br></div><div>This is not advocacy per se, since it is a private group and not a government, but I wanted to give you all a heads up in case you were asked about it by publishers or other people in the open access movement.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Have a great weekend-</div><div>Luis</div>
<div><br></div><div>[1] We have piles of materials from legitimately open-licensed journals, like PLOS: <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Media_from_PLOS_journals" target="_blank">https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Media_from_PLOS_journals</a> (seriously, I spent minutes clicking around in there and never got past the letter A, alphabetically)</div>
<div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr">Luis Villa<br>Deputy General Counsel<br>Wikimedia Foundation<br><a href="tel:415.839.6885%20ext.%206810" value="+14158396885" target="_blank">415.839.6885 ext. 6810</a><br>
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