Creative Flowerbeds
I saw a 2006 vintage interview with Richard Stallman today, and was saddened to see the Creative Commons Non-Commercial terms attached.
I wrote this email to the author, that explains why I feel personally about ‘non commercial’ license restrictions:
Hi, I really like your interview, and would love to give you a donation, but I was saddened to see that you use one of the Creative Commons non-free licenses. I do computer coaching for a living, and have begun to heavily promote Free Software. As part of my work, I am building a collection of computer culture information which I give to my customers as a value-added extra to my services, which some customers are not interested in anyway. I will also distribute the collection to the public through my website. I would love to include your interview with Richard, but with that license I won’t be able to :-( Similarly, I might like to quote the interview in full on a personal blog, followed by my own commentary, but if I have Google Adsense on my personal pages - which is very common - then this would also be commercial activity and not possible. Richard advocates using a simple copyright notice of “Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article are permitted worldwide without royalty in any medium provided this notice is preserved.” for written works like your interview, that are not technically useful compared to say a manual. If you feel strongly about the non-commercial terms, I welcome hearing about your reasons - feel free to blog about email and reply with the URL :-) — Regards, David Copyright (c) David Crossland Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire email is permitted worldwide without royalty in any medium provided this notice is preserved. :-)
The Creative Flowerbeds by David Crossland, except the quotations and unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
March 27, 2007 |
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