On Sat, Sep 06, 2008 at 10:35:22AM +1000, Joseph Gentle wrote: > It does seem like a good way for the share-alike supporters to champion free > software while at the same time making sure their 'free' contributions never > end up in the hands of those evil big business.
I’m probably one of those share-alike supporters you speak of. Making sure my “contributions never end up in the hands of those evil big business” has never been an aim. I think businesses should be able to use the data in the same way as everyone else. They can make lots of money from all of my hard work too, as long as they respect the share-alike. If I did want to discriminate against businesses that might want to make money from the work (and I thought that “commercial use” was a well enough defined term suitable for a license), I would be advocating something similar to CC-by-nc (attribution, non-commercial). Simon -- A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works.—John Gall
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