[Foundation-l] Creative Commons publishes report on defining "Non-commercial", Is Wikpedia non commercial?

[Gregory Maxwell]

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 2:04 PM,  <wiki-lists at 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 at 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.