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Dubious claim of best aside... This is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. How does it apply here? If I migrate my commercial blog, will the license apply to gener

Dubious claim of best aside... This is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. How does it apply here? If I migrate my commercial blog, will the license apply to generated contents?

9dev 2y ago
Assuming this doesn’t inject any spurious code of its own into the migrated content, and you don’t include the migrator itself in your sites distributed artifacts, you should be fine. The license only applies to the code, not to the things it touches.
jeroenhd 2y ago
Standard IANAL disclaimer applies. It seems like the author wants to prevent commercial use of the software: > I want this project to be as widely accessible as possible, while still funding the development costs. This project is completely free for non-commercial and personal usage. Commercial usage is restricted via a license. Feel free to contact me if you want to license this commercially You're not permitted to use the tool to migrate your commercial blog. This is why BY-NC is not considered a free license in the most common definition of the term. However, this license does not apply to the generated output. It only applies to the work the license is attached to. It's not a viral license in that sense. You can migrate your blog and later turn it into a commercial enterprise without risking copyright violations. If you want to migrate your commercial blog, you should ask the author. They can license their code under any license they choose, so they could sell or give you a copy licensed such that you are legally permitted to use it commercially.
- notpushkin 2y ago
  > It seems like the author wants to prevent commercial use of the software Makes sense. Yeah, the license is probably appropriate then. Thanks for the explanation!
ashishb 2y ago
> Dubious claim of best aside... I looked at 10+ tools and tried them on my personal blog, all got the basics right but none did great work for the 300+ posts that I have. You can see the features here https://github.com/ashishb/wp2hugo#goals-of-wp2hugo https://github.com/ashishb/wp2hugo#goals-of-wp2hugo > If I migrate my commercial blog, will the license apply to generated contents? Lots of individuals have personal non-commercial websites and my goal was to give them a free tool to migrate out from WordPress -> Hugo (or even a static site, in general). I hope it is fair to say that the original author of the code deserves to capture some value for the commercial migrations.

Dubious claim of best aside... This is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. How does it apply here? If I migrate my commercial blog, will the license apply to generated contents?

9dev 2y ago

Assuming this doesn’t inject any spurious code of its own into the migrated content, and you don’t include the migrator itself in your sites distributed artifacts, you should be fine. The license only applies to the code, not to the things it touches.

jeroenhd 2y ago

Standard IANAL disclaimer applies. It seems like the author wants to prevent commercial use of the software: > I want this project to be as widely accessible as possible, while still funding the development costs. This project is completely free for non-commercial and personal usage. Commercial usage is restricted via a license. Feel free to contact me if you want to license this commercially You're not permitted to use the tool to migrate your commercial blog. This is why BY-NC is not considered a free license in the most common definition of the term. However, this license does not apply to the generated output. It only applies to the work the license is attached to. It's not a viral license in that sense. You can migrate your blog and later turn it into a commercial enterprise without risking copyright violations. If you want to migrate your commercial blog, you should ask the author. They can license their code under any license they choose, so they could sell or give you a copy licensed such that you are legally permitted to use it commercially.

notpushkin 2y ago
> It seems like the author wants to prevent commercial use of the software Makes sense. Yeah, the license is probably appropriate then. Thanks for the explanation!

ashishb 2y ago

> Dubious claim of best aside... I looked at 10+ tools and tried them on my personal blog, all got the basics right but none did great work for the 300+ posts that I have. You can see the features here https://github.com/ashishb/wp2hugo#goals-of-wp2hugo https://github.com/ashishb/wp2hugo#goals-of-wp2hugo > If I migrate my commercial blog, will the license apply to generated contents? Lots of individuals have personal non-commercial websites and my goal was to give them a free tool to migrate out from WordPress -> Hugo (or even a static site, in general). I hope it is fair to say that the original author of the code deserves to capture some value for the commercial migrations.