[cc-community] Switching my book to a CC licence?

Evan Prodromou evan at prodromou.name
Sun Dec 2 13:08:12 EST 2007


On Sun, 2007-12-02 at 18:04 +0100, robert at atwood.org.uk wrote:

> As far as I can tell, the out-of-context excertp Evan makes from the
> guidelines is misleading.

Perhaps you should read them again, Robert. I quoted the exact phrase
that applies to Greg's proposed scenario -- "The CC-NC license would
allow someone to charge for a copy of the work as long as it wasn't
primarily a for profit transaction."

I'll step you through the guidelines: A) is about the nature of the
user, and we can assume that by "someone" Greg means one of the types of
licensees that should continue. B) we skip through -- we're not talking
about advertising. C) we also skip through -- we're not talking about
providing a copy service.

So then we get to D, and the section I quoted, which I will now quote in
full:

        (1) Is there any money changing hands in any one of the
        following ways in connection with the verbatim use of the NC
        licensed work?

        (a) As a condition of using the NC-licensed work (eg. by levying
        a direct charge or charging subscription fees for access to
        NC-licensed work(s)), license violation – this is not a
        noncommercial use.

The other parts of section D deal with distributing an NC work as part
of a Collective Work, which isn't directly applicable.

-Evan

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Evan Prodromou <evan at prodromou.name>
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