Rob Myers wrote: > There's the V&A API in the UK, but as ever it's noncommercial - > > http://collections.vam.ac.uk/information/information_apiterms
Anyone here happen to know if "for commercial purposes" includes non-profit corporations? 8<---- OFF TOPIC ---- I wonder why so many licenses disallow commerce. Maybe part of it is the continued confusion between the FSF's concepts of 'commercial' and 'proprietary'. Another part might be the Copyright holder's (I'm also imagining individual artisans who chose CC-NC) somewhat justified but otherwise ham-handed attempt to recover some of their operating costs. Could we (the users) ever learn how to organize and 'host' the basic physical needs of people that try to do this good work? Developers of "Open Knowledge" have basic necessities such as food, shelter, simple clothing, etc. that they are unable to meet when they receive no compensation for their valuable results. This causes many of them to lead a double life - where they must care of their bodily needs through proprietary means (or in this example - where they must disallow commerce) even while trying to lead a life of "moral purity" [as Saint IGNUcius would say]. Patrick _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
