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: I have nothing against commercial use of the information except selling the same things we offer for free. Is there any commonly used trade-off or clause for this? --[[User:Xenwolf|Xenwolf]] ([[User talk:Xenwolf|talk]]) 10:42, 23 March 2021 (UTC) | : I have nothing against commercial use of the information except selling the same things we offer for free. Is there any commonly used trade-off or clause for this? --[[User:Xenwolf|Xenwolf]] ([[User talk:Xenwolf|talk]]) 10:42, 23 March 2021 (UTC) | ||
:: The SA "share-alike" clause combined with BY "attribution" does the job well enough, though it's not absolutely strict. People could (any one of us or anyone else) do something like print out a book of everything from the wiki and sell the printed copy, but they would have to indicate the CC BY-SA license and include credit to the Xenharmonic Wiki, and we could and should) say that credit should be listed as "Xenharmonic Wiki https://xen.wiki". So, anyone who pays for the copy would see and know about the original source. | |||
:: In practice, to stop anyone from selling "bootleg" copies of anything requires taking legal action anyway. The most dishonest actors might ignore licenses altogether anyway. I don't imagine anyone will sell the material in a way we'd find problematic. I personally ''support'' the idea of people perhaps making posters and selling them (we plan to do such things for the Kite Guitar), it's okay to pay for the costs of preparing, printing, and getting people physical stuff. And if someone made a paid-for ebook that included wiki material, CC-BY-SA would let them do that, but the whole ebook would still have to be CC-BY-SA which would mean anyone could freely share it and could also take any updated or new material and contribute it back to the wiki. Any small use like just referencing a tiny bit from the wiki would be fair use anyway, so no license can block that. --[[User:Wolftune|Wolftune]] ([[User talk:Wolftune|talk]]) 01:15, 24 March 2021 (UTC) | |||