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Last edited by Liam Dawe on 11 October 2023 at 6:05 pm UTC
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This was 20'ish years ago, what I got were people asking permission to use my articles. I had to refuse because I wrote them for our site and it wouldn't have been fair to the webmaster/owner.
That's what I said... "not everything is open source" when I got replies that didn't like my answer.
Erm, CC BY-SA 4.0 explicitly allows for commercial redistribution. It is not an "easy get-out" when you specifically tell people to go ahead and commercially re-post the articles (unless those sites "forgot" to attribute properly, in which case they are breaking the license).
Not sure if there is a cc license that disallows scraping, but I suspect that CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 should cover that, since said scraping would, I presume, have monetary gain in mind.
Any ways, I can see why you would prefer to publish the articles under conventional copyrights. After all, it's much less exhausting to have a blanket "no copying" policy, where you don't need to explain, using a non-legally-tested license, how copying is allowed in one case, but not another.
Last edited by emphy on 12 October 2023 at 4:31 am UTC
In that case, I'd be interested to see whether the change to conventional copyrights changes the situation at all. I rather get the impression that the sites in question are of the sort that will copy regardless of the license (I am obviously not going to seek them out to check).
Article are released under copyright for GoL and are licensed under CC-BY-SA after 6 month (this is the time choosen by the EU for scientific article but you can use something else).
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