Editing Creative Commons license (section)

=== Non-commercial licenses ===
{{Main|Creative Commons NonCommercial license}}
The NonCommercial license allows image creators to restrict selling and profiting from their works by other parties and thus maintaining free of charge access to images.

The "non-commercial" option included in some Creative Commons licenses is controversial in definition,<ref>{{Cite web |date=September 14, 2009 |title=Defining Noncommercial report published |url=https://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/17127 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921060638/http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/17127 |archive-date=September 21, 2013 |access-date=September 20, 2013 |publisher=Creativecommons.org |df=mdy-all}}</ref> as it is sometimes unclear what can be considered a non-commercial setting, and application, since its restrictions differ from the principles of [[open content]] promoted by other [[permissive license]]s.<ref>{{Cite web |date=August 26, 2013 |title=The Case for Free Use: Reasons Not to Use a Creative Commons -NC License |url=http://freedomdefined.org/Licenses/NC |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120709051540/http://freedomdefined.org/Licenses/NC |archive-date=July 9, 2012 |access-date=September 20, 2013 |publisher=Freedomdefined.org |df=mdy-all}}</ref> In 2014 [[Wikimedia Deutschland]] published a guide to using Creative Commons licenses as [[m:Open Content - A Practical Guide to Using Creative Commons Licences|wiki pages]] for translations and as PDF.<ref name="Till Kreutzer-2014">{{Cite book |last=Till Kreutzer |url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Open_Content_A_Practical_Guide_to_Using_Creative_Commons_Licences_web.pdf |title=Open Content – A Practical Guide to Using Creative Commons Licenses |publisher=[[List of Wikimedia chapters|Wikimedia Deutschland]] e.a. |year=2014 |isbn=978-3-940785-57-2 |access-date=March 23, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150404014103/https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Open_Content_A_Practical_Guide_to_Using_Creative_Commons_Licences_web.pdf |archive-date=April 4, 2015 |url-status=live |df=mdy-all}}</ref>