Wednesday, October 17, 2007, 7:02:50 PM, Jay dedman wrote: > I do agree that it's trubling to read "for financial gain or livelihood". > does this mean you must get paid by a commercial company? > can you just get donations from the community? > can you have a day job and blog at night?
In some ways this is the flip side of all the discussions we have had here about "non commercial" vs "commercial" use of creative commons liceneced resouces. Note that the "finacial gain" clause specifically does not say "as a livelihood" or "for financial gain AND livelihood". The conjunction is "or", which implies that mere financial gain on its own is enough. If showing content on an ad-laden web page counts as commercial use of material for licensing purposes, it's certainly reasonable to think that any site which earns from ads, sponsorship, or whatever would count as "financial gain". Maybe those odd nickels and dimes from Google adsense count for something, after all ... -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk
