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  • From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen AT iki.fi>
  • To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [cc-licenses] open source non commercial license
  • Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 18:32:09 +0200

On Feb 5, 2007, at 17:52, Emerson Clarke wrote:
As such i think it has both significant educational and commercial
value. I would like to be able to provide it free to the open source
and academic communities, but i do not wish for people to be able to
gain commercially from my work.

You can't--by definition. If the license doesn't allow commercial use, it isn't an Open Source license. If your license does not allow commercial use, you are not sharing with the Open Source community.

It is very unfortunate that CC has licenses that don't allow commercial use under the same brand as its licenses that follow Free Software and Open Source principles. Moreover, it is very unfortunate that content licensed under these "non-commercial" licenses is paraded as "Open Content" or "Open Music" and the association with Open Source risks diluting the meaning of Open Source. (Likewise, parading such content as "Free Culture" risks diluting the meaning of Free Software.)

I suggest focusing on how you can make money instead of focusing on preventing others from gaining commercially.

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Henri Sivonen
hsivonen AT iki.fi
http://hsivonen.iki.fi/






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