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freeflight on Feb 18, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Flightradar24 – how it works

Isn't there some kind of "free to use, but not to commercialize" license the CWOP people could be releasing their data under?

djsumdog on Feb 18, 2019 [–]

That gets into the very tricky idea of "What is commercialization?" If you use a Creative Commons works that's BY-NC on your blog, but your blog runs ads, is it now commercial? What if it's funded by Patreon? That's why Wikipedia doesn't allow NC and the premise behind the Free Culture licenses.

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