Re: <nettime> What's the meaning of "non-commercial"?

[Heiko Recktenwald <uzs106@uni-bonn.de>]

Hi,

On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Florian Cramer wrote:

> Am Dienstag, 04. Januar 2005 um 22:43:41 Uhr (+0100) schrieb rasmus
> fleischer:
>
> > Personally, I'm astonished that so many people (including a large part
> > of the net's "copyfighters", and many nettimers too) by default put
> > NonCommercial-licenses on every line of text they produce -- seemingly
> > without a thought on what consequenses such that license may bring.
>
> Yes, few people are aware that imposing the "non-commercial" restriction
> on a licensed work makes it non-free in terms of the Free Software and
> Open Source movements. The Free Software definition of the FSF/GNU

But this doesnt matter at all!
See also the dual licencing model proposed by Arpad Gereoffy for mplayer,


H.


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