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>> "All rights reserved." Really, is this the best YC is able to do? Truly interested in knowingly why the course is not released under something like one of

>> "All rights reserved." Really, is this the best YC is able to do? Truly interested in knowingly why the course is not released under something like one of the Creative Commons licenses: https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/licensing-types-examples/ https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/licensing-types-...

estsauver 10y ago
They're not a nonprofit. You're obviously free to release whatever helpful startup materials you would like to the world, and I'm sure that YC would be quite appreciative of their being more wonderful startups existing in the world as a result.
- beambot 10y ago
  > They're not a nonprofit. For-profit & permissive licensing aren't mutually exclusive. For-profits can release their material with permissible licenses too. I think the parent's criticisms are valid. Consider YC's corporate mission [1]: > Our mission is to enable the most innovation of any company in the world in order to make the future great for everyone. [1] http://blog.samaltman.com/2017-yc-annual-letter http://blog.samaltman.com/2017-yc-annual-letter It would stand to reason that many more people around the world could benefit from free course materials (as in freedom, not beer). The choice to make materials nonfree will significantly limit their distribution and derivative works, thereby reducing the amount of innovation enabled, and contradicting their own "enable maximum innovation" mission statement. EDIT: And now sandslash has confirmed that Creative Commons is the ultimate intent. Clearly YC intends to remain consistent with it's core principles. I applaud them!
sandslash 10y ago
Apologies for that, we were still in the process of drafting a Terms of Use when we put up the site. That will be updated shortly to have more information. We plan on releasing our content under the Creative Commons license similar to Sam's previous Startup Class.
- saycheese 10y ago
  Thanks for the update, glad to hear YC is going to address the issue and that a terms of service will be added too; adding privacy policy would also be nice.

estsauver 10y ago

They're not a nonprofit. You're obviously free to release whatever helpful startup materials you would like to the world, and I'm sure that YC would be quite appreciative of their being more wonderful startups existing in the world as a result.

beambot 10y ago
> They're not a nonprofit. For-profit & permissive licensing aren't mutually exclusive. For-profits can release their material with permissible licenses too. I think the parent's criticisms are valid. Consider YC's corporate mission [1]: > Our mission is to enable the most innovation of any company in the world in order to make the future great for everyone. [1] http://blog.samaltman.com/2017-yc-annual-letter http://blog.samaltman.com/2017-yc-annual-letter It would stand to reason that many more people around the world could benefit from free course materials (as in freedom, not beer). The choice to make materials nonfree will significantly limit their distribution and derivative works, thereby reducing the amount of innovation enabled, and contradicting their own "enable maximum innovation" mission statement. EDIT: And now sandslash has confirmed that Creative Commons is the ultimate intent. Clearly YC intends to remain consistent with it's core principles. I applaud them!

sandslash 10y ago

Apologies for that, we were still in the process of drafting a Terms of Use when we put up the site. That will be updated shortly to have more information. We plan on releasing our content under the Creative Commons license similar to Sam's previous Startup Class.

saycheese 10y ago
Thanks for the update, glad to hear YC is going to address the issue and that a terms of service will be added too; adding privacy policy would also be nice.