#+title: The CC BY-NC-SA license is bad, don't use it #+date: <2022-03-03> The CC BY-NC-SA license permits remix, but forbids commercial use (therefore nonfree). It is a weird frankenstein that combines copyleft with nonfree elements. As a result, works under this license will beget derived works, which will also be nonfree because of the ShareAlike (SA). It is a mistake by Creative Commons, which should have not designed any noncommercial licenses, or if it really wanted to, made noncommercial an optional clause of NoDerivative (ND) licenses. Please do the public a favour and don't release your work under the NC-SA license. If you really do not want to allow commercial use, please use NC-ND instead to avoid nonfree derivatives.