Free Curricula License.
The FCL is nearing completion — version 0.9.9 [link via Open Source Schools].
Personally, I still don’t get what value the FCL provides that the Open Publication License hasn’t already done better.
All that the Open Source Education Foundation (page doesn’t render correctly in IE6 for Windows) has to say in response to their own FAQ question, “What benefits does the FCL have over other licenses?” is “The FCL was created by members of the Open Source Education Foundation, the OpenSchooling project, and OzoneFarm for the purpose of writing curricula for schools, be it a book or another type of information resource.”
Lame explanation, since (1) their main contention seems to be “It’s more beneficial because it was made by us” and (2) OpenContent was created by David Wiley, a respected and well-published Ph.D in instructional technology, specifically for the circulation of teaching materials.
I don’t question the FCL author’s intent; I’m sure it’s honorable. Their execution simpy isn’t as good as Wiley’s. Why muddy the waters with another license when you can’t even reasonably come up with an explanation as to why it is more valuable, or at least different from the existing, satisfactory licenses?