> Yes, but if you lock a NC licensed resource behind a paywall, you're in
> violation of the license, while if you do that with a non-NC license,
> you're not.
... There's no license violation if you're the copyright holder in the first place (in which case, you can lock it wherever you want), and that's probably true for University of the People.
Furthermore, if you're not the copyright holder, that means you got the work from somewhere else, which may well mean that others can do so too. Finally, whenever a downstream user gets ahold of the NC work in question (from whomever), they can put it up on their own (free) website, making the paywall-protection a bit vestigial.
CC-By has all of the same properties, plus downstream users are not limited in the ways they reuse the material, so I don't see how CC-NC is "more free" than CC-By.
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