I remember, about 20 years ago, when some people started making and selling Linux CDs (Walnut Creek or some others). Some people on the Linux mailing list (or n

I remember, about 20 years ago, when some people started making and selling Linux CDs (Walnut Creek or some others). Some people on the Linux mailing list (or newsgroup, my recollection is only approximate) were upset that some people were making money with their work (or with other people works, here again my recollection is approximate). Then Linus said: that's fine. And then, over the years, a billion dollar industry emerged. Except for the fact that I don't expect a billion dollar photo printing industry to emerge from the CC-licensed pictures hosted by yahoo, 500px and others, I think we have a similar situation here. Maybe if Lawrence Lessig wrote something about the situation, this would help a bit, though I don't think Lessig has the same aura over the amateur photographers (after all, he is only the guy who wrote the license) than Linus over the kernel afficionados.