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The '''Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike''' license, or '''CC-BY-NC-SA''' for short, is a popular license for content on the web. | The '''Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike''' license, or '''CC-BY-NC-SA''' for short, is a popular license for content on the web. | ||
Content under this | Content under this license is '''not compatible with Appropedia''': | ||
* Appropedia content may not be reused under this license. | * Appropedia content may not be reused under this license. | ||
* Content under this license cannot be used on Appropedia. | * Content under this license cannot be used on Appropedia. | ||
This is due to the "Non-Commercial" clause. See [[Non-commercial licenses vs open licenses]] for an explanation of why Appropedia does not use this content, why it is not generally | This is due to the "Non-Commercial" clause. See [[Non-commercial licenses vs open licenses]] for an explanation of why Appropedia does not use this content, why it is not generally considered a true [[open license]], and why the Appropedia Foundation (along with many in the [[open content]] community) discourages the use of the non-commercial clause. | ||
== See also == | |||
* [[Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike]] - the open license used by Appropedia, Wikipedia, and many other projects. It contains no Noncommercial clause. | |||
== External links == | == External links == | ||
* [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported] - human readable summary of the license. | * [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported] - human readable summary of the license. | ||
[[Category: | [[Category:Creative Commons]] | ||
Revision as of 16:02, 8 April 2011
The Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike license, or CC-BY-NC-SA for short, is a popular license for content on the web.
Content under this license is not compatible with Appropedia:
- Appropedia content may not be reused under this license.
- Content under this license cannot be used on Appropedia.
This is due to the "Non-Commercial" clause. See Non-commercial licenses vs open licenses for an explanation of why Appropedia does not use this content, why it is not generally considered a true open license, and why the Appropedia Foundation (along with many in the open content community) discourages the use of the non-commercial clause.
See also
- Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike - the open license used by Appropedia, Wikipedia, and many other projects. It contains no Noncommercial clause.
External links
- Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported - human readable summary of the license.