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Creative Commons -NC Licenses Considered Harmful (2005) (kuro5hin.org)
6 points by edward on July 4, 2015 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



Summary: "no commercial use" is impractical and counter productive; giving something (digital) away for free and then telling people not to resell it, is a misguided form of jealousy. Use GPL-style "share alike" instead.


While I agree with the sentiment from a perspective of personal agency, a copyright license should match the wishes of an author. In many places copyright has a moral aspects where the author has a right to forbid having their work associated with areas they dislike. A common example is political association where a author might not like having their creative expression being associated with it.

I would not call that jealousy, but rather a rational decision regarding the social impact that ones work has.




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