[Foundation-l] Diversity and NC images - Board meet

David Strauss david at fourkitchens.com
Sun Jan 14 21:10:20 UTC 2007


The reply suggests that advertising on a website disqualifies it from
being non-commercial use. One affect of that policy is that only people
who can afford to completely fund their site without advertising support
may reuse the content.

The argument that employing a share-alike license destroys commercial
viability is also dubious.

> Hi Gerard,
> I shouldn't have interjected the word 'therefore' as I think there are
> other good reasons for autonomy as well, as I earlier surmised you do
> too. But I'd be interested to know why you disagree on NC. I already
> read Eric's arguments:
> 
> http://intelligentdesigns.net/Licenses/NC
> 
> as well as this reply:
> 
> http://cites.boisestate.edu/v6i3e.htm
> 
> and I'd be interested to know your view.
> 
> Thanks
> luke

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