Global Text and Wikibooks
The aim of free information and the distributed structure of Global Text and Wikibooks are similar. Nevertheless, the organisers of Global Text opted for supervision of each textbook project by a known expert in the field to boost academic credibility. This may have been motivated by the pilot textbook in Information Systems not being used widely by courses after its creation.
Free information exchange between the two related projects is complicated by the different licenses attached to the content. All Wikimedia projects including Wikibooks currently use the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL), while Global Text uses the Creative Commons by Attribution. For useful educational material on Wikibooks to be reviewed and distributed by Global Text, all Wikibooks authors would have to agree to a change of license, which is impossible in practise. A harmonisation of the two licenses would facilitate free information flow.
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