www/licenses license-list.html

[Richard M. Stallman]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Richard M. Stallman <rms>       15/12/19 18:16:55

Modified files:
        licenses       : license-list.html 

Log message:
        Mention extra drawback of CC-BY-NC.  CC-BY-ND is discouraged
        only for documentation, not for all works.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/licenses/license-list.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.451&r2=1.452

Patches:
Index: license-list.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/licenses/license-list.html,v
retrieving revision 1.451
retrieving revision 1.452
diff -u -b -r1.451 -r1.452
--- license-list.html   14 Dec 2015 09:02:52 -0000      1.451
+++ license-list.html   19 Dec 2015 18:16:55 -0000      1.452
@@ -2277,8 +2277,13 @@
     <span class="anchor-reference-id">
       (<a href="#CC-BY-NC">#CC-BY-NC</a>)</span></dt>
 <dd>
-<p>This license does not qualify as free, because there are restrictions on
-charging money for copies.  We recommend you do not use this license.</p></dd>
+<p>This license does not qualify as free, because there are
+restrictions on charging money for copies.  Thus, we recommend you do
+not use this license for documentation.</p>
+
+<p>In addition, it has a drawback for any sort of work: when a
+modified version has many authors, in practice getting permission for
+commercial use from all of them would become infeasible.</p></dd>
 
 <dt><a id="CC-BY-ND" href="?">Creative Commons Noderivatives, any version</a>
     <span class="anchor-reference-id">
@@ -2286,7 +2291,7 @@
 <dd>
 <p>This license does not qualify as free, because there are
 restrictions on distributing modified versions.  We recommend you do
-not use this license.</p></dd>
+not use this license for documentation.</p></dd>
 
 </dl> <!-- end class="red" -->
 
@@ -2633,7 +2638,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2015/12/14 09:02:52 $
+$Date: 2015/12/19 18:16:55 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>