https://wiki.creativecommons.org/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=No_restrictions_on_field_of_use 2026-04-11T07:05:39Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.30.0 https://wiki.creativecommons.org/index.php?title=No_restrictions_on_field_of_use&diff=10869&oldid=prev 2008-02-08T07:20:13Z

<p>Both <a href="/index.php?title=Free_Software&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Free Software (page does not exist)">Free Software</a> and &quot;open source&quot; require that there be &#039;&#039;&#039;no restrictions on field of use&#039;&#039;&#039; in which software is applied. This is an extremely controversial rule that is not followed in th</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>''The following was contributed by [[anonymous trolls]] to the predecessor of [[this wiki]] in 2004. Feel free to keep editing it.''<br /> <br /> Both [[Free Software]] and &quot;open source&quot; require that there be '''no restrictions on field of use''' in which software is applied.<br /> <br /> This is an extremely controversial rule that is not followed in the [[Creative Commons]] [[parametric license]] regime, although it is an option. The [[CC-by-nc-sa]] in particular does restrict and prevent '''commercial use'''<br /> - accordingly [[Common Content]] need not be &quot;free&quot; by the definition in use by the ideologists at Debian or any other nerd group more interested in technology than in values.<br /> <br /> ''See [[problems with free software and open source models]] for related problems that are solved or at least addressed as options in the [[Creative Commons Public License]]s.''</div>

Craig Hubley