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Are open textbooks published under traditional copyright licenses?

April 26, 2017copyright licenses published textbooks traditional

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Are open textbooks published under traditional copyright licenses?

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Very rarely. The vast majority of open textbooks are published using either a Creative Commons license of a GNU license. Some commentators even argue that a textbook shouldn’t count as open if it’s not published under one of these licenses.