On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.comwrote:
It has always been permitted to use the Commons work commercially. It has always been explicitly prohibited to disallow non commercial use.
<snip> I am surprised that you or MaxSem take this position. I do not quite understand why you did not realise earlier that allowing commercial use is what we have always done.
That is not at all the point - this is a slippery slope indeed and a dangerous precedent to set, especially at the chapter level. There are potentially ways it could be done properly (eg open access to suppliers meeting a certain standard, non-profit printing, etc.) but so long as we're meeting our targets the potential cost does not seem to be at all worth the significant risk.
I hope MaxSem returns once sanity prevails,
Sam