https://lemmy.ml/post/35472063
The original post is about a supposedly privacy focused keyboard that sends your voice and messages to OpenAI for speech to text. I posted saying I use the FUTO Keyboard as it’s open source and does voice to text on-device. There unsued a discussion about if the FUTO Keyboard is open source, as the license prohibits commercial use. After people sharing thoughts on this for a day, the mods removed the thread for being offtopic and promoting proprietary software. Even if you think that the license prohibiting commercial use makes it not open source, it certainly doesn’t make it proprietary.
The Creative Commons website explains why licenses which use their non-commercial or no-derivatives clauses are non-free.
In 2009, seven years after they released their licenses, they did a study which found that users and creators have substantially varied understandings about which types of uses are prohibited and allowed by the NC clause.
For instance, an NC work can be included in third parties’ YouTube videos which Google might put advertisements on (as long as the uploaders don’t monetize the video themselves), but the work cannot be included in Wikipedia (because contributions to Wikipedia must be freely licensed, which means allowing commercial use).
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons_NonCommercial_license