On Sat, Jul 11, 2020 at 3:10 PM Michael Peel <email(a)mikepeel.net> wrote:
I remember reading Erik’s blog post a decade or so
ago, which convinced me that -NC was useless due to its ambiguity - where exactly is the
line drawn between what is commercial and what is not? I can’t find it now
https://freedomdefined.org/Licenses/NC is the canonical location of
that essay. I and others have updated it a bit since it was first
written, but it could definitely use some love :)
Is there any way we could convince CC to deprecate the
useless -NC licenses?
I doubt it given how pervasive it is. Back when those discussion were
hot, we were able to convince CC to add the "Approved for Free
Cultural Works" stamp you see on license pages like this one, to set
them apart more clearly:
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
It would be nice to see CC take a more active stance in at least
discouraging the use of NC in circumstances where it's not appropriate
(it's possible I've missed some work by CC to that effect).
Warmly,
Erik