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Via netbib: Reasons Not to Use a Creative Commons-NC License im sowieso empfehlenswerten Intelligent Designs-Wiki.

Konkret geht es um die allow non-commercial use only (-NC) option des an dieser Stelle schon mehrfach vorgestellten Creative Commons-Projekts. Problem:

many people can or will make the licensing choice only once. In a collaborative context, license changes can be difficult or even impossible. It is therefore crucial that the choice is an informed [!] one.
The key problems with -NC licenses are as follows:

• They make your work incompatible with a growing body of free content, even if you do want to allow derivative works or combinations.
• They may rule out other basic uses which you want to allow.
• They support current, near-infinite copyright terms.
• They are unlikely to increase the potential profit from your work, and a share-alike license serves the goal to protect your work from exploitation equally well.

here may be circumstances where -NC is the only (and therefore best) available option, but that number of circumstances should decrease as the business models around free content evolve.

Fortsetzung des Statements mit allen notwendigen Links hier.

Natürlich ist es notwendig, den Reflexionsprozess nicht einfach einzustellen, weiter die Relevanz von CC-Licenses zu prüfen. Letztlich aber scheint kaum ein Weg daran vorbeizuführen. "Light"-Varianten wie die NC License werden meist problematisch bleiben, was auch wesentlich mit dem bislang immer noch nicht vorhandenen "Common Sense" in Sachen "Free Content" zu tun hat.