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  • From: Anthony <osm AT inbox.org>
  • To: Development of Creative Commons licenses <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [cc-licenses] Commercial Rights Reserved
  • Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 06:27:51 -0500

On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 5:10 PM, Valentin Villenave
<valentin AT villenave.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 7:34 PM, Heather Morrison <hgmorris AT sfu.ca> 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".
>
> It may not be what they *mean*, but it is what they actually *do* by
> choosing these licenses.

How so? Just because the license in some cases allows commercial use,
that doesn't mean the authors who choose the license are engaging in
commercial use.

> "Commercial Rights Reserved" is (in my humble opinion) _exactly_ what
> is needed to make -ND clearer and, dare I say, more honest. So, a
> strong yay on my end.

So what about -NC-SA?




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