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CC-BY-NC explicitly prohibits commercial usage. It’s also common to see GPL license for non-commercial usage and paid licenses for commercial usage.
by wffurr 5y ago
CC-BY-NC explicitly prohibits commercial usage.
It’s also common to see GPL license for non-commercial usage and paid licenses for commercial usage.
- necovek 5y agoDual licensing with a copyleft license is common if you want to offer an ability for someone to develop a closed-source project: they can perfectly develop a GPL-licensed commercial project without paying anything. If CC-BY-NC prohibits commercial use, it is not an open source or free software license (which have compatible definitions, but differ in motivations). AFAIK, Creative Commons was set to create a set of licenses in the spirit of open source for creative works, and I wouldn't expect them to be open source at all.