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"noncommercial" is impossibly vague to enforce.

If a not-for-profit entity like a library used one of these to make a T-shirt that is sold at a profit (but the profit goes to the non-profit) is that commercial use?

What if the design is done by a for-profit design firm for the non-profit library?

What if the non-profit library installs it on it's computers, and they get used by someone on a for-profit project?

Anytime you put a "profit" based limit on a license, you're probably doing it wrong. I'd much rather have a GPL style copyleft than this - it's less invasive.



It's not clear to me that "non-commercial" would permit any for-profit or not-for-profit use. Both are commercial.




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