Hoi, The WMF does not allow for non-commercial as a restriction. So getting it in through the back door is not an option. What is an option is to make content available and select the CC-by-sa / GFDL or CC-by as a license. When a publisher uses CC-by material and complies with its license provisions, it is absolutely fine for them to use it. When they use CC-by-sa or GFDL material and they comply with the license provisions, is is absolutely fine for them to use it. When they make a bundle of money, I will be happy for them; it is perfectly legal to do so and it has always been perfectly legal to do so.
I cannot see that adverts can be considered to become part of the work that we produce. We have always been really careful to keep adverts out and to even consider that by adding adverts to our content esewhere they can becoming part of a derivative work .. I think it is a bit too much. Thanks, GerardM
On Dec 3, 2007 7:48 PM, George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.com wrote:
On Dec 1, 2007 12:50 PM, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
- Laurence Lessig has posted multiple times claiming that it is
acceptable to take illustrations licensed under CC-By-SA and produce combined works which are not freely licensed. For example, if I wrote a since instruction book and created illustrations on how to safely use a bunsen burner a commercial textbook publisher could use my illustrations in their textbook without giving anything back the the world of free content.
Where do you stand on the question of commercial Wikipedia mirror sites having non-GFDL content on pages, such as ads and any additional information they may chose to create and release?
What's so different from that (existing, well accepted) practice and letting someone take your illustration and use it in a book?
If you want NC, then you should say so, but it's not consistent with how we use GFDL on the project now...
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