Encora Therapeutics, which developed a wrist-based device that reduces essential tremor, started as a project in MIT’s famous product-design class, 2.009 (Product Engineering Processes).
Because if it were CC BY-SA, companies could sell it and then use the income to make improvements to it.
And because of the SA part, any improvements they put into it will necessarily be made public, benefiting all.
But if it’s NC, nobody can actually make it and sell it. Hardware isn’t free to make, so that means nobody will ever be able to walk into a store and buy one of these.
Fucking NC licenses kill its possibility for helping lots of people :'(
?Non-commercial license makes it difficult? why?
Because if it were CC BY-SA, companies could sell it and then use the income to make improvements to it.
And because of the SA part, any improvements they put into it will necessarily be made public, benefiting all.
But if it’s NC, nobody can actually make it and sell it. Hardware isn’t free to make, so that means nobody will ever be able to walk into a store and buy one of these.