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IMHO we need to distinguish two things:

1. It's not really possible *per se* to prevent for-profit companies from just accessing our web pages and downloading the content from them.

    We can try to block crawlers of known bad faith actors, as [has been suggested before](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/291474) and should, in my personal opinion, very much be implemented. There are probably legal means to defend users' content when somebody fails to abide to the license a post has been published under. However we need to keep in mind that we are all volunteers and have quite limited resources.

   Also I'd like to point out that not every for-profit use of our content is *necessarily bad* for our communities. E. g. we probably want for profit search engines to crawl our sites so that communities become discoverable.

2. Actively enabling such community-adverse conduct by the Codidact Foundation is a different matter of course. And IMO something that should not happen.

    There are good reasons we chose to incorporate as a non-profit and one of them is that it legally binds us to support the interests of the community (instead of monetary interests). It's always been our principle that Codidact is "Community First" and "by the community, for the community" and in that spirit any major decision needs consultation and generally also agreement by the Community.

> Last question. If the answer to the first and/or second question is "yes", would it then not be more in line with Codidact policies or guidelines, to use the CC By-NC 4.0 license as default (and leave it up to any user to perhaps change this to CC By-SA 4.0)?

IIRC this is can be changed per-community, so this should probably be a per-community decision. Also you can set a default license for your posts in [your profile preferences](/users/me/preferences) FWIW.