Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic

Also known as Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike 2.0 Generic, Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0, Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic, CC BY NC SA 2.0, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0, CC-BY-NC-SA 2.0, CC-BY-NC-SA-2.0, Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike 2.0 Generic, Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 2.0.

Commercial use: not allowed
Share alike: required
Attribution: required (keep the copyright and license notices)

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Write this as a license text (needs an account) DALICC reads the model above and writes what it permits, requires and prohibits in plain English. Without an account, the Text download above writes the model out from the vocabulary.

Canonical URI https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/CC-BY-NC-SA-2.0

Permissions

Charge distribution fee from the text
Derivative works from the text
Derive from the text
Duties
- Attribution from the text
- Modification notice from the text
- Notice from the text
Display from the text
Distribute from the text
Duties
- Attribution from the text
- Notice from the text
Modified works from the text
Modify from the text
Duties
- Attribution from the text
- Modification notice from the text
- Notice from the text
Present from the text
Reproduce from the text

Prohibitions

Change license from the text
Commercial use from the text
Royalty collection reserved from the text
Sublicense from the text

License-wide duties

Share alike from the text

What applies by default

The statements above are the library's reading of this license: each is marked with the sentence it rests on, or as a library convention where the text is not explicit. The statements below are the ones the DALICC reasoner supplies for acts the license says nothing about, from the default rules of the dependency graph it reasons with. Each one names the legal source it rests on. None of it is in the record.

Promote by default rule (adopted)

This license says nothing about Promote, and the graph applies this reading in all jurisdictions it covers: it is not permitted unless the license permits it.

A licence that says nothing about endorsement is read as not allowing it: the licence gives the licensee no right to use the licensor's name or marks in a way that states or implies that the licensor endorses the licensee or its product, while stating truthfully that a work is based on or uses the licensed work is a different act that this rule does not decide. A copyright licence grants rights in the work, and the right to use a name or a trademark is a separate right under trademark law and the protection of names, which a silent copyright licence does not pass on. Combining a licence that is silent about endorsement with one that permits it shows a conflict marked as coming from this rule.

Basis Trademark and name rights are separate from copyright: Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 article 9 lets the proprietor of an EU trade mark prevent all third parties not having his consent from using the sign in the course of trade, and Directive (EU) 2015/2436 article 10, 15 U.S.C. 1114 and 1125(a), section 12 BGB and section 43 ABGB protect marks and names in the same way. The library's evidence is Creative Commons 4.0 section 2(b)(2): Patent and trademark rights are not licensed under this Public License. A copyright licence that is silent grants no right to use the licensor's name or marks to suggest endorsement (Worldwide)

Further terms

These are the things the license says about itself beyond the acts it permits, forbids and requires: when it ends, how long there is to put a breach right, which law governs it, and so on. A term that comes from the DALICC vocabulary links to its definition.

Compatible with: CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0
Reciprocity scope: the derivative work, not a collective work the work is included in
Share-alike version qualifier: this License, a later version of this License with the same License Elements, or a Creative Commons iCommons license with the same License Elements
Terminates on breach: Yes

Clauses

Warranty disclaimer

UNLESS OTHERWISE MUTUALLY AGREED TO BY THE PARTIES IN WRITING, LICENSOR OFFERS THE WORK AS-IS AND MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND CONCERNING THE WORK, EXPRESS, IMPLIED, STATUTORY OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, WARRANTIES OF TITLE, MERCHANTIBILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NONINFRINGEMENT, OR THE ABSENCE OF LATENT OR OTHER DEFECTS, ACCURACY, OR THE PRESENCE OF ABSENCE OF ERRORS, WHETHER OR NOT DISCOVERABLE. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES, SO SUCH EXCLUSION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

Limitation of liability

EXCEPT TO THE EXTENT REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT WILL LICENSOR BE LIABLE TO YOU ON ANY LEGAL THEORY FOR ANY SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THIS LICENSE OR THE USE OF THE WORK, EVEN IF LICENSOR HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

Additional clauses

You may not offer or impose any terms on the Work that alter or restrict the terms of this License or the recipients' exercise of the rights granted hereunder. You may not sublicense the Work. You must keep intact all notices that refer to this License and to the disclaimer of warranties. You may not distribute, publicly display, publicly perform, or publicly digitally perform the Work with any technological measures that control access or use of the Work in a manner inconsistent with the terms of this License Agreement.

Info

Target asset types: Creative work (i.e. text, picture, sound, movie)
Region / jurisdiction: Worldwide
Validity: Perpetual
Source: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/
Legal code: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/legalcode
This description is published under: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Publisher: Creative Commons
SPDX identifier: CC-BY-NC-SA-2.0 on the SPDX license list
Version: 2.0
DALICC identifier: CC-BY-NC-SA-2.0

This record is published under CC BY 4.0. Credit it as: DALICC License Library, DALICC - Verein zur Förderung der Rechtssicherheit in der Datenbewirtschaftung, https://dalicc.net, CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The license it describes belongs to its publisher.

Use this license

Everything below is generated from this record. Replace the example address with the address of your own work.

JSON sidecar

{
  "license-uri": "https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/CC-BY-NC-SA-2.0",
  "license-title": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic",
  "spdx-id": "CC-BY-NC-SA-2.0",
  "attribution": "Copyright (c) [year] [copyright holder]",
  "asset": null,
  "generated-by": "DALICC"
}

RDF, Turtle

@prefix cc: <http://creativecommons.org/ns#> .

<https://example.org/my-work>
    cc:license <https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/CC-BY-NC-SA-2.0> .

RDF, JSON-LD

{
  "@context": {
    "cc": "http://creativecommons.org/ns#"
  },
  "@id": "https://example.org/my-work",
  "cc:license": {
    "@id": "https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/CC-BY-NC-SA-2.0"
  }
}

HTML attribution

<p>This work is licensed under <a href="https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/CC-BY-NC-SA-2.0" rel="license">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic</a>.</p>

This license asks for attribution, so the credit line is part of it.

Badge

Markdown

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HTML

<a href="https://dalicc.net/license-library/CC-BY-NC-SA-2.0"><img src="https://dalicc.net/license-library/CC-BY-NC-SA-2.0/badge.svg" alt="License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic"></a>

Review

Written from the license text by: Giray Havur
Written on: 2026-09-22
Second review: not yet done
Record changed since this review: yes (version 2, 2026-09-24)
Findings: 17 recorded, 14 applied to the record, 0 proposed

The record models the generic text of Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0, the original that the Creative Commons jurisdiction ports of this version were adapted from. It copies the model of CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0, the 4.0 record of the same element set, and departs from it only where the 2.0 text departs from the 4.0 text. Version 2.0 added the musical and webcasting royalty clauses and the file-sharing sentence, and both are in the record.

17 findings

info Rubric 1 spdx:licenseId applied

File name, identifier, SPDX identifier and IRI agree. The record models the generic original of version 2.0, which the library did not hold: it held the 4.0 International record of this element set and the jurisdiction ports adapted from version 2.0. The record is not a port, so it carries no dalicc:jurisdictionPortOf and no country; cc:jurisdiction is dalicc:worldwide and dalicc:variantKind is "version", the kind docs/DATA.md gives a record that is an earlier version of a text the library holds.
info Rubric 2 odrl:target applied

One odrl:AssetCollection of dct:type dalicc:CreativeWork. dcmitype:Dataset is left out: the words "database" and "sui generis" do not occur anywhere in this legal code, so the text neither licenses nor waives a database right. CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0 carries dcmitype:Dataset because Section 4 of the 4.0 text licenses the sui generis database right, and the German 3.0 ports carry it because their adapted text does. This record differs from both on that point, and the difference is in the texts.
major Rubric 3 odrl:permission applied

Section 3 grants a license to reproduce the Work, "to create and reproduce Derivative Works", and to distribute, display publicly, perform publicly and perform publicly by means of a digital audio transmission both the Work and Derivative Works. That is odrl:reproduce, odrl:distribute, odrl:display, odrl:present, odrl:modify, dalicc:ModifiedWorks, odrl:derive and cc:DerivativeWorks, the same set CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0 carries.
major Rubric 4 odrl:prohibition applied

The NonCommercial element reads: "You may not exercise any of the rights granted to You in Section 3 above in any manner that is primarily intended for or directed toward commercial advantage or private monetary compensation." cc:CommercialUse is therefore a prohibition and not a permission. The licence adds: "The exchange of the Work for other copyrighted works by means of digital file-sharing or otherwise shall not be considered to be intended for or directed toward commercial advantage or private monetary compensation, provided there is no payment of any monetary compensation in connection with the exchange of copyrighted works." dalicc:chargeDistributionFee stays a permission, which is the reading CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0 and the ports of this element set already carry: a fee for the act of transferring a copy is not the commercial advantage the clause bars. dalicc:chargeLicenseFee is not written, because the licence bars charging for the grant itself.
major Rubric 4 odrl:prohibition applied

Section 4(a) reads: "You may not offer or impose any terms on the Work that alter or restrict the terms of this License or the recipients' exercise of the rights granted hereunder. You may not sublicense the Work." That is dalicc:sublicense prohibited, which review decision 1 of 2026-09-15 requires of every Creative Commons record except the CC0 dedication, and dalicc:ChangeLicense prohibited, which library convention 15 expressly keeps for this family because the no-downstream-restrictions clause is the bar the rule otherwise denies.
minor Rubric 4 odrl:prohibition applied

dalicc:promote is prohibited, as it is on CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0 and on the ports of this element set. Version 2.0 has no endorsement sentence in its restrictions: the nearest text is the paragraph that closes the document, "Except for the limited purpose of indicating to the public that the Work is licensed under the CCPL, neither party will use the trademark "Creative Commons" or any related trademark or logo of Creative Commons without the prior written consent of Creative Commons". Unlike the 3.0 text, this version does not say that the paragraph falls outside the License. The paragraph is quoted in dalicc:additionalClauses so a reader can judge it.
major Rubric 4 odrl:prohibition applied

The licence reserves the royalty collection against the licensee: "Licensor reserves the exclusive right to collect, whether individually or via a performance rights society (e.g. ASCAP, BMI, SESAC), royalties for the public performance or public digital performance (e.g. webcast) of the Work if that performance is primarily intended for or directed toward commercial advantage or private monetary compensation." dalicc:royaltyCollectionReserved says exactly that and is written as a prohibition, because it is the licensee who may not exercise the reserved right. The term was defined by the review of 2026-09-15 and applied to no record until now; the whole clause is quoted in dalicc:additionalClauses.
major Rubric 5 odrl:duty applied

Section 4(a) reads: "You must include a copy of, or the Uniform Resource Identifier for, this License with every copy or phonorecord of the Work" and the attribution clause asks You to "keep intact all copyright notices for the Work" and to name the Original Author and the title. cc:Attribution and cc:Notice therefore hang on odrl:distribute, on odrl:modify and on odrl:derive, where dalicc:modificationNotice joins them because the licence asks for "a credit identifying the use of the Work in the Derivative Work" . The duties hang on the acts that trigger them, not on the odrl:Set.
major Rubric 5 odrl:duty applied

The ShareAlike element is a licence-wide cc:ShareAlike duty on the odrl:Set, which is reciprocity shape 1 and what CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0 and every port of this element set carry. Section 4(b) sets its scope and the licences it accepts, and the record says so twice over: dalicc:reciprocityScope names how far it reaches and dalicc:shareAlikeVersionQualifier names the outgoing licences, as "this License, a later version of this License with the same License Elements, or a Creative Commons iCommons license with the same License Elements". The qualifier had been applied to no record. The whole of 4(b) is quoted in dalicc:additionalClauses.
gap Rubric 8 dalicc:additionalClauses none

Two clauses the record quotes rather than models, because CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0 and the 287 ports do not model them either and a single set of records should not change the family on its own. The first is the technological measures sentence: "You may not distribute, publicly display, publicly perform, or publicly digitally perform the Work with any technological measures that control access or use of the Work in a manner inconsistent with the terms of this License Agreement." dalicc:applyTechnicalProtectionMeasures exists and would carry it as a prohibition. The second is Section 8: "the Licensor offers to the recipient a license to the Work on the same terms and conditions as the license granted to You under this License", which dalicc:downstreamOffer describes exactly; odrl:grantUse cannot carry it, because the dependency graph makes odrl:grantUse the same action as dalicc:sublicense and this licence prohibits sublicensing. Both are proposals for the whole Creative Commons family rather than for this record.
major Rubric 7 dalicc:terminatesOnBreach applied

Section 7(a) reads: "This License and the rights granted hereunder will terminate automatically upon any breach by You of the terms of this License." dalicc:terminatesOnBreach is true and no dalicc:curePeriod is written, because this generation of the licence has no reinstatement clause: once the licence ends, it ends. The 4.0 text added the 30-day reinstatement, and CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0 carries neither property today. Section 7(b) says "the license granted here is perpetual (for the duration of the applicable copyright in the Work)", so dalicc:validityType is dalicc:perpetual, and the text names no legal system, so cc:jurisdiction is dalicc:worldwide.
minor Rubric 6 dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer applied

The warranty disclaimer and the limitation of liability are separate sections and are quoted into separate properties, which is family rule 10. Both are quoted verbatim, including the spelling of the source text ("MERCHANTIBILITY", "THE PRESENCE OF ABSENCE OF ERRORS"). The text of CC-BY-NC-SA-2.0 carries no long dash, so no quotation needed a hyphen in place of one. Line breaks inside a quoted clause are collapsed to single spaces, the way CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0 writes its clauses; the ports keep the line breaks of their own source.
info Rubric 9 record none

The consistency check of app.services.composer against the axioms of licensedata/dependencygraph/dg_default.ttl returned no conflicts.
info Rubric 10 record none

The nearest sibling is CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0, and the nearest port is the 2.0 port of this element set. The record carries the same permissions, duties and prohibitions as CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0 and differs from it in five things, all of them differences between the two texts: no dcmitype:Dataset on the target, dalicc:terminatesOnBreach with no cure period, dalicc:licenseVersion "2.0" with dalicc:variantKind "version", the clause quotes of this generation of the text, and the statements this version adds (dalicc:royaltyCollectionReserved, dalicc:moralRightsRestriction, dalicc:shareAlikeVersionQualifier and dalicc:reciprocityScope where the text has them).
minor Rubric 10 dalicc:additionalClauses applied

The six records of this version quote the same passages of the version's text, each literal a single verbatim run of this record's own legal code, in the order the text states them. A passage the element set does not have is absent, which is a difference between the texts and not between two readings.
minor Rubric 4 odrl:prohibition applied

dalicc:promote was prohibited and no sentence of this text supports it. The statement was the library's reading of a legal default, that a copyright licence which says nothing about endorsement grants no right to it, and it sat in 519 of 581 records as a house convention. That reading is now an adopted dalicc:DefaultRule of the core dependency graph, which supplies it to every licence that is silent about the action, so a compatibility check reaches the same answer and the record states only what the text states. Removed on 2026-09-23; see section 13 of docs/LICENSE_REVIEW.md.
major Rubric 10 dalicc:compatibleWith applied

The share-alike clause lets an adaptation be released under "this License, a later version of this License with the same License Elements, or a Creative Commons iCommons license with the same License Elements". CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0 is that later version of the same License Elements, so the record links it. dalicc:compatibleWith names CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0.

Report an issue The review record as JSON The review checks the model against the license text. It is not legal advice.

History

This license model has 2 versions. Version 2 is the one served today; every earlier version keeps its own address, so a conclusion drawn from one of them can still be checked against it.

Version 2 current2026-09-24 Giray Havur

The changes since version 1 left endorsement to the default rule of the core dependency graph, recorded which sentence of the text each statement rests on, named the license the record itself is published under, recorded the licenses a work under it may be released under and removed the quotes that do not name the act they support.

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- removed prohibition dalicc:promote
  
  Manual edit The endorsement prohibition rested on no sentence of the text; the default rule for endorsement now supplies it.
- changed permission odrl:derive with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice, dalicc:modificationNotice]
  
  was permission odrl:derive with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice, dalicc:modificationNotice]
  
  Manual edit Its duty cc:Attribution quotes "keep intact all copyright notices for the Work"
- changed permission odrl:distribute with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice]
  
  was permission odrl:distribute with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice]
  
  Manual edit Its duty cc:Attribution quotes "keep intact all copyright notices for the Work"
- changed permission odrl:modify with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice, dalicc:modificationNotice]
  
  was permission odrl:modify with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice, dalicc:modificationNotice]
  
  Manual edit Its duty cc:Attribution quotes "keep intact all copyright notices for the Work"
- changed prohibition cc:CommercialUse
  
  was prohibition cc:CommercialUse
  
  Manual edit The statement now quotes the sentence of the licence text it rests on: "You may not exercise any of the rights granted to You in Section 3 above in any manner that is primarily intended for or directed toward commercial advantage or private monetary compensation."
- changed prohibition dalicc:royaltyCollectionReserved
  
  was prohibition dalicc:royaltyCollectionReserved
  
  Manual edit The statement now quotes the sentence of the licence text it rests on: "Licensor reserves the exclusive right to collect, whether individually or via a performance rights society (e.g. ASCAP, BMI, SESAC), royalties for the public performance or public digital performance (e.g. webcast) of the Work if that performance is primarily intended for or directed toward commercial advantage or private monetary compensation."
- changed prohibition dalicc:sublicense
  
  was prohibition dalicc:sublicense
  
  Manual edit The statement now quotes the sentence of the licence text it rests on: "You may not offer or impose any terms on the Work that alter or restrict the terms of this License or the recipients' exercise of the rights granted hereunder. You may not sublicense the Work."
- added dct:license <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/>
  
  Manual edit Every record is published under CC BY 4.0. cc:license names the record DALICC keeps of that licence; dct:license now names it by the address Creative Commons publishes it at, so that a consumer matching the canonical IRI finds it.
- added dalicc:compatibleWith dalicclib:CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0
  
  Manual edit The share-alike clause lets an adaptation be released under "this License, a later version of this License with the same License Elements, or a Creative Commons iCommons license with the same License Elements". CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0 is that later version of the same License Elements, so the record links it.
- changed permission odrl:derive with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice, dalicc:modificationNotice]
  
  was permission odrl:derive with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice, dalicc:modificationNotice]
  
  Manual edit Removed the quoted evidence of duty cc:Attribution on odrl:derive, duty cc:Attribution on odrl:distribute, duty cc:Attribution on odrl:modify: the quoted sentence does not name the act. The statements stay, read from the text without a linked quote.
- changed permission odrl:distribute with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice]
  
  was permission odrl:distribute with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice]
  
  Manual edit Removed the quoted evidence of duty cc:Attribution on odrl:derive, duty cc:Attribution on odrl:distribute, duty cc:Attribution on odrl:modify: the quoted sentence does not name the act. The statements stay, read from the text without a linked quote.
- changed permission odrl:modify with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice, dalicc:modificationNotice]
  
  was permission odrl:modify with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice, dalicc:modificationNotice]
  
  Manual edit Removed the quoted evidence of duty cc:Attribution on odrl:derive, duty cc:Attribution on odrl:distribute, duty cc:Attribution on odrl:modify: the quoted sentence does not name the act. The statements stay, read from the text without a linked quote.
Version 1

Created from the license text on 2026-09-22 (Creative Commons 2.0 Generic).

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Every change names the reason behind it: a finding of the content review, one of its library-wide decisions, the metadata that review wrote onto every record, or a hand edit. None of it is legal advice.

Nothing on this page is legal advice. What a license means is decided by its text; ask a legal advisor before you rely on it.