Comments on: How to fix “non commercial” http://aliquidnovi.org/how-to-fix-non-commercial/ Africa creativity innovation Sat, 28 Jan 2012 05:40:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=9519 hourly 1 By: Derek Keats http://aliquidnovi.org/how-to-fix-non-commercial/comment-page-1/#comment-50188 Derek Keats Thu, 23 Jul 2009 12:45:11 +0000 http://aliquidnovi.org/?p=268#comment-50188 Another objection to the NC restriction is that it creates license incompatibility gaps. Can I take BY-NC-SA material and mix it with BY-SA material and use it in a noncommercial way? If not, then there is a license gap. If so, then what happens to someone who creates a derivative of my work? Do thay then have to remove the BY-NC material from mine in order to use it? Yet another reason is loss of benefit from input by commercial entities. I often struggle with trying to understand why someone creating educational content would wish to preclude gaining benefit from commercial interests. In the software world, it is hard to imagine where we would be with Free and Open Source Software now if there was a NC restriction on use. Almost certainly, we would be nowhere. The loss of input from commercial interest to content with educational potential must be considerable. See http://www.slideshare.net/dkeats/how-to-choose-a-cc-license and http://www.slideshare.net/dkeats/dond-do-nc-restriction Another objection to the NC restriction is that it creates license incompatibility gaps. Can I take BY-NC-SA material and mix it with BY-SA material and use it in a noncommercial way? If not, then there is a license gap. If so, then what happens to someone who creates a derivative of my work? Do thay then have to remove the BY-NC material from mine in order to use it?

Yet another reason is loss of benefit from input by commercial entities. I often struggle with trying to understand why someone creating educational content would wish to preclude gaining benefit from commercial interests. In the software world, it is hard to imagine where we would be with Free and Open Source Software now if there was a NC restriction on use. Almost certainly, we would be nowhere. The loss of input from commercial interest to content with educational potential must be considerable.

See
http://www.slideshare.net/dkeats/how-to-choose-a-cc-license
and
http://www.slideshare.net/dkeats/dond-do-nc-restriction

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