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Friday, December 21, 2007

OA math textbooks opening wider

David Santos is making Openmathtext.org even more open by permitting rather than blocking commercial use.  According to Open Text Book:

...[H]e’s agreed to gradually phase out use of the Open Publication License with the noncommercial option, and to start using a license compatible with the Open Knowledge Definition.

Several of the books on the site’s download site are now available under the GFDL, including:

  • Elementary Algebra Lecture Notes
  • Precalculus I and II Lecture Notes
  • Linear Algebra Notes
  • Number Theory Notes...