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* 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. | ||
== External links == | == External links == | ||
Revision as of 18:14, 5 April 2009
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 licenses 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.
External links
- Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported - human readable summary of the license.