☂ Essays Now Creative Commons Licensed

Posted on November 19, 2010 by Simon Phipps

I had a request on Identica to make one of my essays available under a Creative Commons licence so it could be translated. I thought that was such a good idea I’ve now applied a Creative Commons licence to the whole Essays section. I’d welcome any translations and will gladly post them alongside the originals with attribution.

Sharp-eyed free-culture mavens will note I have used CC-BY-SA-NC. I’m actually perfectly happy for commercial uses, but past bad experience with a certain commercial user exploiting my work in a way I regarded as unethical have left me wanting to check each commercial use in advance. It’s entirely possible I can be talked out of this, but the distaste for that episode remains strong.

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  1. jrep, on November 19, 2010 at 18:07 said:

    One does wonder whether an unethical reuser will be deterred. Perhaps time will tell.

  2. Links 21/11/2010: systemd and Mandriva Status Updates | Techrights, on November 21, 2010 at 07:40 said:

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