On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 2:04 PM, wiki-lists@phizz.demon.co.uk wrote:
It makes no difference. Wikipedia licenses everything on for commercial use. As you cannot relicense someone else's work, you cannot use a NC license worked. Most NC licensees probably wouldn't mind wikipedia reusing stuff, but they don't want big media reusing it.
In case others are confused by the tangent here; Please note: jamesmikedupont@googlemail.com wrote:
It is my opinion that we should be careful of people who are using restricted software for contributions because it might be in violation of some licenses.
He's asking about a different issue: If it's okay to use software which is licensed only for non-commercial use to create material for Wikipedia. This is unrelated to creative commons' -NC licenses.