"If the web had been NC licensed, we would not have google, and pagerank would have remained where it started as an academic theory experiment. That would suck, in my opinion. And the big publishers know this, which is precisely why they add clauses that ban mining to existing licenses and want commercial restrictions."
— John Wilbanks [open-science] [SCHOLCOMM] Libre open access, copyright, patent law, and, other intellectual property matters
