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<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/12/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Erik Moeller</b> <<a href="mailto:erik_moeller@gmx.de">erik_moeller@gmx.de</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
For quite a long time, I've been meaning to write a summary of the key<br>reasons not to use "non-commercial uses only" licenses. It is now online at:<br><br><a href="http://intelligentdesigns.net/Licenses/NC">http://intelligentdesigns.net/Licenses/NC
</a><br><br>I posted it to Kuro5hin as well, where it is now being discussed:<br><br><a href="http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/9/11/16331/0655">http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/9/11/16331/0655</a><br><br>The version on the wiki is slightly more comprehensive and will
<br>hopefully evolve over time.<br><br>This is not specific to Wikimedia, but I hope that those Wikimedians<br>lobbying individuals, governments, and educational or scientific<br>institutions to put their content under truly free licenses or into the
<br>public domain will find this collection of arguments useful.<br><br>Best,<br><br>Erik<br>_______________________________________________<br>Commons-l mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Commons-l@wikimedia.org">Commons-l@wikimedia.org
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