This was brought up during the 4.0 drafting process, but it was ultimately rejected:
https://creativecommons.org/2012/08/29/ongoing-discussions-noncommercial-and-noderivatives/ We also proposed renaming NC to "Commercial Rights Reserved" to make it clearer what NC does, but that too had insufficient support. https://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/cc-community/2012-December/008087.html I'm not sure what the current attitudes are at CC but I think it's no more likely than before. -Kat > Is there any way we could convince CC to deprecate the useless -NC licenses? > > Thanks, > Mike > > > On 11 Jul 2020, at 22:59, Erik Moeller <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi folks, > > > > Pete Forsyth wrote a new essay on the ambiguities of the NonCommercial > > ("non-commercial use only") provision in Creative Commons licenses, > > which I wanted to share in case it's helpful for folks making the case > > against using NC to cultural institutions or others (or in the > > occasionally resurgent debate to permit NC within Wikimedia): > > > > https://freedomdefined.org/The_non-commercial_provision_obfuscates_intent > > > > It argues that NC is so ambiguous in its defining restriction that it > > almost defeats the point of attaching a CC license at all. I feel this > > complements the longer (dated!) essay at > > https://freedomdefined.org/Licenses/NC nicely. > > > > 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: [email protected] > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > > > _______________________________________________ > 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: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ 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: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
