[paulgb]

Four or five years ago I was contacted by a company that wanted to redistribute a program I wrote in a for-profit CD-ROM compilation. I think that's a more direct analogy to the magazine situation. I happily agreed. I get the emotional difference between giving something away for free for personal use and giving something away for someone else's profit, but is there any logical justification of the distinction?

Now I license my content as CC-BY-SA. Recently a for-profit blog took some graphs from a post I wrote and added context in German. This was totally within the lines of the license, and I thought it was pretty cool that people in Germany were now able to benefit from my work.