NC would also create a nightmare for downstream reusers.
If I want to use some portions of a Wikipedia article in a blog post, and I
have a couple ads on my blog to help defray the hosting costs, does that
violate NC? And certainly the stuff James brings up, regarding providing
mechanisms for offline access, even if no profit is made from such an
endeavor and the "sale" only helps to defray part of the costs.
The decision to require open content licenses was not an arbitrary one.
When we say "The free encyclopedia", that means in terms of "libre",
not
just "gratis". Sure, we can legally use "noncommercial" or "no
derivatives"
or "for educational purposes only" licensed works--but our users cannot
reuse it, and that they can do that has always been part of what we have
promised them. Our current minimal acceptance of nonfree content already
makes that a bit of a morass for would-be reusers; doing so on a wide scale
would make it a hopeless minefield.
Todd
On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 7:45 AM James Heilman <jmh649(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Yah I have mixed feelings about NC. There is a lot of
great content under
this license which would benefit our readers if we could use it. We for
example have folks like Khan Academy and the World Health Organization who
refuse to adopt open licenses. They tell us that we can use their content
right now as we are a non commercial project but that they will not chance.
Yet us allowing NC will keep us from forcing those who are currently using
this horribly unclear license to adopt an actual open one. I have had those
who create NC context explicitly say we CANNOT use it on
"Internet-in-a-Box" as even though we are selling the devices at below the
cost of making them in the developing world, they are still being sold.
This makes me want to have nothing to do with NC.
ND is even worse. This means we cannot translate content and I am not
interested in seeing us adopt anything which we cannot translate.
James
On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 3:29 PM Ziko van Dijk <zvandijk(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,
There was once a report in which I read: Wikimedia Commons should allow
NC
and ND content because that is somehow good for
"communities that are
historically prohibited from telling their stories".
Then I asked on the talk page for the reasoning behind this
demand/postulation.
The answer I got was not very substantial.
I am very open to discuss the pros and cons of e.g. opening Wikimedia
Commons to NC or ND. But sorry, I find it very difficult to have a
meaningful conversation on this basis.
Kind regards
Ziko
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> They’re here! [1] We are delighted to announce the first round of
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