Talk:MIT OpenCourseWare

I have a question. I found MIT OpenCourseWare, the site providing a course materials from MIT's faculty. (I found that site from the list at [1]). I read the term of use [2] and it looks like the materials in there can be adapted to here, wikipedia. What do you think? -- Taku 22:54 Jan 10, 2003 (UTC)

My answer is a bit late, but I think that we are not free to use OpenCourseWare materials. I have read their license and it seems to restrict uses to non-commercial purposes. This is an "additional restriction" that is conflict with the GFDL. DanKeshet 19:26 Jan 19, 2003 (UTC)

I am sorry I didn't notice your comment until now. Anyhow, thanks a lot. -- Taku 16:02 Jan 27, 2003 (UTC)

However, I see no harm in placing extensive links to their materials in Wikipedia since they're definitely doing something we should approve of. I'll aim to place links to their courses at closely related articles. --bodnotbod 18:55, Feb 9, 2005 (UTC)

Indeed, all items on the page are still copyrighted by MIT or MIT staff, so I don't think it would go over well if they were adapted to MIT. That being said, I just went through and recounted the courses, 1435, up from 915 in January. MIT's been busy, it seems. --Dataphiliac 05:48, 8 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Concerning copyrights, I know I was paid by OpenCourseware for a non-exclusive license to post materials that I wrote for course 18.441 (statistical inference). So it's certainly nothing like public-domain stuff. Michael Hardy 17:47, 8 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Subject list

Is there a reason to keep the subject list? It seems so comprehensive that its meaningless. ----Doug Alford 15:00, 17 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

OCW ≠ MIT OCW

There are several other schools that have OCW now, including Utah State (http://ocw.usu.edu/), Johns Hopkins (http://ocw.jhsph.edu/), and Tufts (http://ocw.tufts.edu/). Perhaps OCW should not redirect here, but be its own article? Uttaddmb 21:04, 30 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]