[Foundation-l] Creative Commons publishes report on defining "Non-commercial"

[jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com]

This brings up my favorite subject:
Is working on Free software or Wikipedia defined as Commercial non profit work?

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.

commercial business activities, nonprofit business activities, or
revenue-generating business activities, that is what free software,
and wikipedia is, in my opinion.

please comment, I am not a lawyer and would like your opinion.

Sources:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/937676

The "non-commercial use" text is based on the Microsoft Software
License Terms for Office Home and Student 2007 products.

In the Microsoft Software License Terms, the "non-commercial use" text
identifies the use of the product. You may install one licensed copy
of the software on three devices in your household. The software is
not licensed for any commercial business activities, nonprofit
business activities, or revenue-generating business activities.


http://www.cmu.edu/computing/software/license-office/licenses/msca.html
Restrictions: Use for academic, non-commercial purposes only


http://www.microsoft.com/info/cpyright.mspx#EEB
PERSONAL AND NON-COMMERCIAL USE LIMITATION.
Unless otherwise specified, the Services are for your personal and
non-commercial use. You may not modify, copy, distribute, transmit,
display, perform, reproduce, publish, license, create derivative works
from, transfer, or sell any information, software, products or
services obtained from the Services.

And here :


On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Hay (Husky) <huskyr at gmail.com> wrote:
> This might interest some of you:
> http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Defining_Noncommercial
>
> This is the long-awaited study on a large survey on how people
> interpret the terms "non-commercial" and "commercial", like in the
> NC-licenses from Creative Commons. Pretty interesting stuff for people
> interested in free culture in general, although with its 255 pages
> this might be something that you would rather like to skim through
> instead of fully read :)
>
> For a summary of the findings read:
> http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/17127
>
> -- Hay
>
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