Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Peter Brink <peter.brink AT brinkdata.se>]

Roger Chrisman skrev:
> I heard mention of a "clarification" to the CC Non-commercial license 
> element that allows advertising such as Google Ads. Anyone know more 
> about this "clarification" and where it is written?
>
> I looked for it in the CC Non-commercial license element but I don't 
> think I found it there and the element seems vague and wide open to 
> interpretation to me. Here is NC license element *4c* of by-nc-sa-3.0 
> [1] (identical but for the typo "con-nection" to element *4b* of 
> by-nc-nd-3.0 [2] and by-nc-3.0 [3]):

It's worth remembering that, as Lawrence Rosen puts it in his book 'Open 
Source Licensing Software Freedom and Intellectual Property Law' (p. 
120), "[u]nder the law, only the common understanding of a licensor and 
his licensees matters, as reflected in the written terms and conditions 
of the license agreement between them." How CC defines non-commercial 
doesn't matter as much as how you and your licensees defines it.

It's also worth remembering that a licensor's ability to govern the 
meaning of unclear or ambiguous terms in the license varies from 
jurisdiction to jurisdiction.

CC's FAQ in general is therefore just a guideline and not a set of hard 
rules.

/Peter Brink