This is pretty cool: Wikipedia came across my photo collection of actress Elisabeth Shue on Flickr and asked me to change the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial license on one of them to a CC Attribution license so that they could use it. I did, of course. Here’s the entry.
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Why does Wikipedia require the removal of the non-commercial use restriction?
I don’t get that.
–Steve
That’s been their policy from the outset. It’s a very involved discussion that has had thousands of inches written about it.
Basically, Wikipedia wants to be truly open to the global community and doesn’t want to be bogged down in the debate of what is and isn’t a commercial site (among other reasons), so it requires all contributions to be available for all kinds of uses.