Ilon Musk: Now SpaceX Photos in the Public Domain
Last week it became known that SpaceX had opened an account on the Flickr photo service and started uploading its photos there under CC BY-NC 2.0 . A month before this, some technical publications wrote an open letter to Ilona Mask with a request to transfer photos under a free license. The same editions regarded SpaceX's move as generally positive, but criticized the nature of the license - images cannot be used for commercial purposes.
A few hours ago, Musk announced the publication of photos under CC BY-NC 2.0 in his account "Tweeter". “But why not public domain? What to lose? ”- asked one of the users. “Good offer,” answered Musk. “We just changed the license to fully public domain.”
But there is a small technical detail: Flickr does not give the opportunity to choose Public Domain as an option. It seems that for this reason SpaceX switched to CC BY 2.0 , that is, the Mask company got rid of the requirement of non-commercial use. According to CC BY 2.0, commercial use and creation of derivative works are fully authorized. The license used now has only one requirement: you need to specify the authorship. But, judging by the statement of the Mask, SpaceX is unlikely to monitor compliance with even this condition.
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This is not the first generous gesture Mask in relation to intellectual property: previously all Tesla patents have become free to use .
Photos are available at https://www.flickr.com/photos/spacexphotos
A few hours ago, Musk announced the publication of photos under CC BY-NC 2.0 in his account "Tweeter". “But why not public domain? What to lose? ”- asked one of the users. “Good offer,” answered Musk. “We just changed the license to fully public domain.”
But there is a small technical detail: Flickr does not give the opportunity to choose Public Domain as an option. It seems that for this reason SpaceX switched to CC BY 2.0 , that is, the Mask company got rid of the requirement of non-commercial use. According to CC BY 2.0, commercial use and creation of derivative works are fully authorized. The license used now has only one requirement: you need to specify the authorship. But, judging by the statement of the Mask, SpaceX is unlikely to monitor compliance with even this condition.
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This is not the first generous gesture Mask in relation to intellectual property: previously all Tesla patents have become free to use .
Photos are available at https://www.flickr.com/photos/spacexphotos
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/377705/
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