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Thanks for doing this, Michael, it's awesome that this is now available! I notice the material is copyright Caltech. Any chance that they'd consider releasing

Thanks for doing this, Michael, it's awesome that this is now available! I notice the material is copyright Caltech. Any chance that they'd consider releasing it under an open license? A CC-BY license would enable this material to be repurposed and improved in all kinds of interesting ways.

mhartl 13y ago
Thanks. The Feynman Lectures IP is a treacherous minefield, and it took a lot of effort even to get this far. I'd love to see a Creative Commons license, but I'd be surprised if it happens. I try to emphasize to the interested parties that, by doing things like giving away online content and using CC licenses, they stand to make more money (if they execute right), but it's a hard sell to people who don't live on the bleeding edge like we do. And since I don't have equity in the project, my efforts in this direction are strictly pro bono.
- ma2rten 13y ago
  Maybe we could crowd-fund this?
ISL 13y ago
Wow. CC-BY-ing the Feynman Lectures would have a meaningful impact on undergraduate education worldwide. Where I'm sitting in our lab, I'm probably within 50m of at least ten copies. CC-BY-ing just a few of the old stalwarts (I like the 1970 Sears and Zemansky, for example, and old editions of Thomas' Calculus are fine (probably better than present editions) ) would stop a lot of expensive silliness with the generation of open-source textbooks. Buying out the rights to the best textbooks is in our national interest.