[pp.int.general] Non-commercial use

Glenn Kerbein glenn.kerbein at pirate-party.us
Sat Jun 13 08:07:46 CEST 2009


Perhaps this survey by Creative Commons will explain things better:
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/14337

Mikko Särelä wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> I have been thinking about how the clause to always allow non-commercial 
> use should be defined. The line is blurred if the definition is based on 
> "not making money out of it" as there are so many different ways that one 
> can get monetary compensation even if one does not sell the product. 
> 
> Any ideas on how it should be delimited? 
> 
> I have been toying with the idea that we should make sure that things 
> published with a free licence (such as GPL or CC) should preferably be 
> counted as non-commercial even if it is a commercial company doing the 
> publishing or the creator has some other external means of making money). 
> 
> What do you think? 
> 

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Glenn "Channel6" Kerbein
Pirate Party of the United States
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