[cc-community] FYI: comment by Eric S Raymond on CC

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Wed Feb 13 10:41:06 EST 2008


Eric S. Raymond was quoted:
>> "Raymond: That's why the OSD doesn't depend on making any such
>> distinction -- it's too easy to end up with either exploitable
>> loopholes for non-cooperating commercial entities or nasty
>> legal risks for nonprofits."

Greg London wrote:
> Good grief, no. That is NOT why the open source movement
> doesn't make a distinction between commercial and non-commercial.
> The open source movement doesn't make such a distinction
> because such a distinction isn't "Free as in Speech" (Libre).
> 
> A non-commercial license isn't about community freedom,
> it's about the original author leveraging free samples
> in exchange for free advertising.

That is very well put, Greg! that summarizes just what I feel about the 
NC license.  I don't think it should  pretend to be other than what you 
describe. Can i quote you :-?







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