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• Bryan Alexander
• Paul Allison
• Régis Barondeau
• Doug Breitbart
• George Brett
• Suz Burroughs
• Joseph Corneli
• Jay Cross
• Charles Jeffrey Danoff
• Julian Elve
• María Fernanda
• James Folkestad
• Kathy Gill
• Gigi Johnson
• Anna Keune
• Roland Legrand
• Amanda Lyons
• Christopher Tillman Neal
• Ted Newcomb
• Stephanie Parker
• Charlotte Pierce
• David Preston
• Howard Rheingold
• Paola Ricaurte
• Verena Roberts
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• Fabrizio Terzi
• Geoff Walker

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Future contributors: Note also that we will require a similar copyright waiver agreement. That said, the waiver also means that you are free to do essentially whatever you like with the content in your own work! Have fun!

How we came to this decision

These Creative Commons license options were proposed by various members of the community:

• CC Zero – public domain; no restrictions for downstream users
• CC By-SA – requires downstream users to include attribution and to license their work in the same way
• CC By-SA-NC – requires downstream users to include attribution, to license their work in the same way and disallows any commercial use of the content

After a brief discussion, no one was in favor of restricting downstream users, so we decided to go with CC0. We agreed that we would get enough “credit” by having our names on peeragogy.org. In connection with this discussion, we agreed that we would work on ways to explicitly build “reusability” into the handbook content.