[Foundation-l] Commons and The Year of the Picture

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
Sam I asked a question and you conveniently snipped that out. So you did not
reply to my question and consequently your statement of "not at all"  does
not relate to what I wrote..

If you are of the opinion that things can be done differently, please
explain how. A printer makes money, that is how he earns his crust. So how
would non-profit printing work. Does it exist ? You are also under the
impression that "we" are meeting our targets.. What do you know of the
financial position of the French chapter and what do you know of its
ambitions ?
Thanks,
      GerardM

2009/1/22 Sam Johnston <samj at samj.net>

> On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Gerard Meijssen
> <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com>wrote:
>
> > 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
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