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Would I be allowed to use a device hardened using a hardening guideline provided under a cc-nc license to do commercial stuff?
<p>I want to install a new OS on my main computer.
After I install it, I want to harden it according to these guidelines:
<a href="https://learn.cisecurity.org/benchmarks" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://learn.cisecurity.org/benchmarks</a></p>
<p>I am not part of any company yet, and the device is my private computer.</p>
<p>However, I may or may not use this device to do commercial things in the future.</p>
<p>The guidelines seem to be provided under a creative commons license with nc clause.</p>
<p>Would first hardening the device according to these standards and then using it for commercial purposes later on violate the nc clause of the creative commons license of the standards?</p>

<p>A creative commons license with an NC clause means that a user cannot sell copies of the content, nor derivative works based on the content, nor works into which the content has been merged. It does not mean that the information in the content cannot be used to create a commercial product. I am not sure if any copyright-based license could do that, in fact I strongly doubt it. Copyright (in US law at least) is a bundle of rights, including  the right to make copies, the right to authorize the making of copies, the right to create or authorize the creation of derivative works, the right to publicly perform a work, and the right to display a work. But copyright does not protect the right to <strong>use</strong> the information contained in a work. That would require a patent.</p>
