Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Rob Myers <rob AT robmyers.org>]

On 22 Jan 2006, at 17:42, LinuxLala wrote:

> I just realized that the CC BY-NC is the license for http:// 
> www.boingboing.net
>
> There are several ads on the site, and from what has been discussed  
> a number of times here, I think this is a misuse of the license.

Boing Boing are the authors of the content. They do offer the content  
under a BY-NC license to users of the site, but they are not  
themselves using the content under an NC license. So they are allowed  
to show adverts alongside their content.

If anyone else used the content under the NC license and showed  
adverts that would be bad.

But much of Boing Boing is quotation from other sites, and you can go  
to the sources of this material to use it under the terms of its  
license or within the limits of Fair Use.

- Rob.