Op di 15-07-2003, om 22:47 schreef Karl Wick:
Krzysztof P. Jasiutowicz wrote:
There are textbooks that were released into open source by their authors/publishers
If you know where I could get my hands on some of these textbooks please tell me. That would be a great starting point for further work.
Absolutely. I have been collecting Freely licensed textbooks (and some semi-free) in part for that purpose at http://www.opencursus.be/ since a year.
The default page shows the links, there is a category of open content projects with around 100 links. Previously there was mentioned that there where no Free textbook projects that used a wiki. Well, there is a least a small project at http://www.renaissoft.com/april/cgi-bin/wiki.pl
Here is my collection of 150 courses/textbooks: http://www.opencursus.be/modules.php?name=Downloads The blurps of text are dutch, but almost all link-descriptions are english, and could be useful for English Readers. The green or yellow buttons are acronyms of the licenses. If authors use other strong copyleft licenses, I'm sure they would agree to dual-license their material to include GFDL.
Wouter Vanden Hove