I remember reading Erik’s blog post a decade or so ago, which convinced me that -NC was useless due to its ambiguity - where exactly is the line drawn between what is commercial and what is not? I can’t find it now, but perhaps http://www.opensourcejahrbuch.de/download/jb2006/chapter_06/osjb2006-06-02-en-moeller.pdf is similar. Pete’s new essay seems to agree with that.
Is there any way we could convince CC to deprecate the useless -NC licenses? Thanks, Mike > On 11 Jul 2020, at 22:59, Erik Moeller <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi folks, > > Pete Forsyth wrote a new essay on the ambiguities of the NonCommercial > ("non-commercial use only") provision in Creative Commons licenses, > which I wanted to share in case it's helpful for folks making the case > against using NC to cultural institutions or others (or in the > occasionally resurgent debate to permit NC within Wikimedia): > > https://freedomdefined.org/The_non-commercial_provision_obfuscates_intent > > It argues that NC is so ambiguous in its defining restriction that it > almost defeats the point of attaching a CC license at all. I feel this > complements the longer (dated!) essay at > https://freedomdefined.org/Licenses/NC nicely. > > Warmly, > > Erik > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
