[open-science] SPARC author addendum uses CC-NC licence and now all hybrid publishers have followed

Mon Dec 12 17:04:50 UTC 2011

If you can come up with a license which only enables the uses you want
to see, and persuade other people to use it, then great.  If you want
to allow socially-useful companies, or entrepreneurs, or educational
institutions, or non-profits, to make use of your work, then you will
have to choose some other license than CC-NC, because CC-NC does not
do that.  So find yourself a lawyer and get busy.

For instance, effectively CC-NC prevents the Climate Code Foundation
from using a document to promote the public understanding of climate
science.

At the end of the day, do you care more about enabling positive uses
or preventing negative uses?
-- 
Nick Barnes, Climate Code Foundation, http://climatecode.org/