On Sat, Jul 11, 2020 at 3:10 PM Michael Peel <em...@mikepeel.net> wrote:
> I remember reading Erik’s blog post a decade or so ago, which convinced me > that -NC was useless due to its ambiguity - where exactly is the line drawn > between what is commercial and what is not? I can’t find it now https://freedomdefined.org/Licenses/NC is the canonical location of that essay. I and others have updated it a bit since it was first written, but it could definitely use some love :) > Is there any way we could convince CC to deprecate the useless -NC licenses? I doubt it given how pervasive it is. Back when those discussion were hot, we were able to convince CC to add the "Approved for Free Cultural Works" stamp you see on license pages like this one, to set them apart more clearly: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ It would be nice to see CC take a more active stance in at least discouraging the use of NC in circumstances where it's not appropriate (it's possible I've missed some work by CC to that effect). Warmly, Erik _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
