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  • From: Kuno Woudt <kuno AT frob.nl>
  • To: cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [cc-licenses] Commercial Rights Reserved
  • Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 22:24:30 +0100

On 12/10/2012 08:34 PM, Heather Morrison wrote:
Thank you very much for asking about this. I am strongly opposed to
changing "noncommercial" to "commercial rights reserved". The
noncommercial element is often used by creators who are not primarily
in the commercial realm, and "commercial rights reserved" is not
necessarily what people mean by "noncommercial".

Isn't that exactly the problem with the current name?

If people choose a "noncommercial" creative commons license thinking it means something other than "commercial rights reserved", they just picked a license which doesn't do what they meant it to do.

-- kuno.




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