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ScottLogic / Technology-Carbon-Standard

A proposed Technology Carbon Standard that aims to provide a unified standard for understanding, quantifying, and reducing carbon emissions from an organisation's technology landscape. A component of a holistic Technology Sustainability Framework.
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License restricting commercial use #24

Open thibaudcolas opened 4 months ago

thibaudcolas commented 4 months ago

I find the proposed standard interesting and would consider using it in my work, however it doesn’t seem possible with the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license. Is it really the intention that the standard can only be reused or adapted in a non-commercial context?

Practically speaking for me, though lots of the sustainability initiatives I’m part of don’t have a commercial nature – I don’t feel comfortable depending on something as fundamental as a reporting / categorisation standard if I’m only able to do so for non-commercial projects.

cronky commented 4 months ago

Thanks for asking about this - we did wonder if this would cause concern and will adapt the license file to incorporate the below clarification soon:

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. This license allows commercial entities to use and adapt this work for their own projects and software (for example modelling or diagramming tooling), but does not allow third parties to use or adapt it as the basis for any commercial services or engagements they sell to customers.

However, we may be open to dual licensing this work to allow such commercial uses in some cases. Small consultancies interested in using or adapting this work commercially may inquire about a low or no cost dual license (particularly if they are collaborators and have contributed to improving the standard). Others interested in commercial use should contact Scott Logic to discuss dual licensing options.

thibaudcolas commented 4 months ago

Thanks for getting to this so quickly!

does not allow third parties to use or adapt it as the basis for any commercial services or engagements they sell to customers.

That’s where personally I’d have a hard time "convincing my boss" to spend time with this standard or contribute to it in any way, when there are other standards that are more open and there’s no need for licensing negotiations. So I think in that respect the clarification you mention is spot on.