Re: public announcement - draft 1

Posted by Robin Millette on
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/public-announcement-draft-1-tp256p299.html

On 2/21/06, Michael Lenczner <[hidden email]> wrote:
> comments inline below
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> On 2/21/06, Tracey P. Lauriault <[hidden email]> wrote:

> > change - freely accessible - to - accessible at no cost for non commercial purposes -
> > reason - freely is the current modis operanti but at a cost!  excluding freedom of
> > information (FOI).  non commercial is important as the assumption is that a business can
> > afford to do this.
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> I respectfully disagree with this.  I think that I should be able to
> make a map of montreal that is advertiser supported and I should be
> able to include potholes taken from a municipal or burrough database.
> I think that that database should be freely accessible to all - not
> just to non-profit entities.  Frankly, a lot of projects might not
> happen if google adwords are not allowed.

I have the same reaction that Michael has. Non-commercial is a very
fuzy concept, see this list of use cases for example:
http://oldwiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/NonCommercial_use_cases

Free software has thrived mostly because there are no commercial
restrictions. Having a copyleft or sharealike clause, where you grant
the use of the work or data only if the derivative work will also
offer the same liberty, in essence works just as well as a
non-commercial clause.

My 0,02$

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