[Foundation-l] Special License

A. Özgür Erdemli dbl2010 at gmail.com
Wed Jan 10 17:28:20 UTC 2007


cc-by-sa only says give credit to owner (by) and keep the license same (sa
or share alike). It does not limit the type of usage. But in this case there
are some limitations.

You cannot limit type of usage. i.e. you cannot say non-comercial or
comercial but free of charge, or educational only etc. You just shouldt care
where it will be used and how it will be used. Only things you can request
is attribution and keeping the license same, which means keep the image
free.

Non-commercial use does not only mean selling the picture but also using the
picture in a commercial material.

To understand it I can give an example. Lets say I write a book and use an
image from wikipedia which has one of the proper free licenses. I can sell
this book and make money. This is allowed. But I must say in my book that
this picture has this free license. So anyone can use that image from my
book, anywhere, without asking me or paying money to me. And it will be all
legal. So that image will have still that freedom to be used freely. Person
A will copy from Person B. C will copy from B. D from C. That image will
serve to people as long as it exists.

So idea is, you let the picture coppied as much as it needed and keep it
stii be coppied to forever.

So your license is like cc-by-sa with some more limitations. You should
eliminate those additional limitations.

Dbl2010

On 1/10/07, Yoni Weiden <yonidebest at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Even though usage must be given for free? i.e the pictures cannot be sold
> commercially? Does this mean cc-by-sa doesn't allow to sell the images as
> well?
> Yoni
>
>
> On 1/10/07, Dariusz Siedlecki <datrio at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 1/10/07, Yoni Weiden <yonidebest at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > My question is this: We have a custom-made picture license created
> along
> > > time ago. It reads (I translated it to English from Hebrew):
> > >
> > > "This image was created by user:user-name. Free use for educational
> > > purposes, with appropriate attribution is allowed. You may use this
> > image
> > > for any purpose (incl. commercial use) if the usage is given for free
> of
> > > charge to the wide public, with appropriate attribution."
> >
> > I think yes, it sounds like CC-By-SA.
> >
> > --
> > Pozdrawiam,
> > Dariusz Siedlecki
> >
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