HOWTO Negotiate a Creative Commons License: Ten Steps

Step 6 Build partnerships and make CC plans

Early on a colleague put us in touch with Adam Hyde of FlossManuals.net, a social entrepreneur who has created a community based open source documentation site. We saw the huge potential of the Creative Commons license to translate the book from the Adobe Creative Suite to GIMP, Inkscape, and the other FLOSS applications; and because of the way their system works, it would then be translated into Farsi, Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, etc. Showing this very concrete example of a tangible way that Creative Commons license would increase the book's impact helped the Publisher see the power of the CC license.

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