CC-licensed PhD dissertation

Herkko sez, "This is the first PhD. disseration that I have seen published with Creative Commons license. Mikko Välimäki succesfully publicly defended his dissertation on 3th of June at Helsinki University of Technology. Mikko is a tech lawyer and has worked with several free / open source software companies. He was also the first chairman of Electronic Frontier Finland.

"The book is available for download (CC licensensed of course). Mikko wanted to try guerilla marketing even when couple major publishing houses offered to publish his book. You can buy dead tree version from Amazon or from Mikko's site." Link (Thanks, Herkko!)

Update: As I suspected, there is a long list of CC-licensed dissertations that predate this one. For example, Mike Gehm of Duke University Department of Physics, 2003. Let this update stand as proof that such a list exists -- no need to send in any others, thanks!

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