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> Of these, the laughably named commons clause is the worst offender (it is plainly designed to be confused with the purely virtuous creative commons) Creative
by zizee 8y ago
> Of these, the laughably named commons clause is the worst offender (it is plainly designed to be confused with the purely virtuous creative commons)
Creative Commons has a "NonCommercial" variant[0], which is much more restrictive than the Commons Clause. To suggest the commons clause is piggybacking off the goodwill of the name of a more restrictive license is silly.
> they are almost certainly asserting rights that the copyright holder doesn’t in fact have
The author doesn't seem to understand how copyright works.
- antt 8y agoHaving been around for the GPLv3 debate this sounds exactly like it. A lot of gut feelings with very little in the way of factual knowledge of what copyright law is, or what the current problems we are trying to deal with are.