effe iets anders wrote:
I think snowdog made an excellent point in this discussion. NC is more free as Fair Use. So a direct consequence would be that NC should be allowed on Wikipedia. Even educational use only is more free. So if we choose for fair use in the long run, we have to be fair ourselves, and accept those as well. (To be clear: I am totally against allowing either NC, either educational-only either fair use). It just might very well be that the GFDL is worthless then, and when people are talking about throwing out our principles, what is more our principle then free licences?
I too have have serious reservations about Non-Commercial or Educational Only licences. I feel more comfortable with fair use. I rather suspect that these restricted licences stem from some sort of a political stand about profit-making companies. It's an idealistic approach that failed to consider the consequences.
Ec