Non-commercial content for Appropedia?
While we encourage likeminded communities and websites to use an open content license in most cases, without the non-commercial clause, we respect that the creators of content have the right to license the content how they wish.
Thus we've talked about making a new namespace especially for non-commercial-license material. This enables projects or content to gain exposure by being in Appropedia, but the pages will be clearly marked to state that the content is not suitable for inclusion in pages that do not have the non-commercial license.
This is just an idea at this stage. What do you think?
My preference would be to
My preference would be to disallow non-commercial licensing on Appropedia. I'm not a fan of that license, and it seems like it would add a fair bit of confusion. Assuming that Economic Development is a part of poverty reduction and international development, then I struggle to see the value of non-commercial licensing. The exception would be the developing nations licenses, but I believe those are fading into the sunset through lack of use.
- CurtB as user1 (wiki user page)
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