[WikiEN-l] No derivatives (was: Would you like one of your videos posted on Wikipedia?)

[Michael Snow]

dmehkeri at swi.com wrote:

>>>digging, it does seem to be disallowed. For rationale, I get pointed 
>>>back to either Jimbo's posts on disallowing non-commercial-use media 
>>>licenses, fair use, or discussion of downstream use. 
>>>
>>>None of these reasons seem to apply here. For the free encyclopedia, 
>>>a CC-BY-ND media license, for example, is perfectly redistributable, 
>>>allows for possible commercial use, and poses no issues for forks or 
>>>other downstream use, right? 
>>>      
>>>
>>When we talk about Wikipedia being free, we refer to the 4 freedoms of 
>>free software, as defined by Richard Stallman many years ago:
>>
>>0. The freedom to copy
>>1. The freedom to redistribute
>>2. The freedom to modify
>>3. The freedom to redistribute modified versions
>>
>>CC-BY-NC violates at least the last of these.
>>    
>>
>This is just an unfortunate typo, and you mean CC-BY-ND. Right?
>  
>
Probably he did, although for use in a commercial context (and that can 
mean many things), it's also true for CC-BY-NC.

--Michael Snow