Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Francesco Poli <invernomuto AT paranoici.org>]

On Tue, 17 Apr 2012 11:14:48 -0700 Heather Morrison wrote:

[...]
> May I bring up for argument's sake that it would be optimal if CC-BY
> did NOT grant commercial rights, but that rather this would require
> a special license?

I strongly disagree that it would be optimal.
CC-by would then lose *any* chance of being considered a license
suitable for releasing Free works.
A work cannot be really Free (as in freedom), if its commercial use or
distribution are restricted.
So, no, in my own personal opinion, it would be the *opposite* of
optimal, if CC-by did *not* grant permission to use, copy, modify,
and/or redistribute for commercial purposes.


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