Anon-commercial (also spellednoncommercial)activity is an activity that is not carried out in the interest ofprofit.[1] The opposite iscommercial, something that primarily serves profit interests and is focused on business.
For example,advertising-freecommunity radio stations are typicallynonprofit organizations staffed by individualsvolunteering their efforts to air a wide variety ofradio programming, and do not run explicitradio advertisements, included in theUnited States specific grouping of "non-commercial educational" (NCE)public radio stations.
SomeCreative Commons licenses include a "non-commercial" option, which has been controversial in definition.[2] In a 2008 survey conducted in theUnited States, some respondents interpreted the concept as:[3]
