Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 South Africa

Also known as Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike 2.0 South Africa, Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0, Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 South Africa, CC BY NC SA 2.0, CC BY NC SA 2.0 ZA, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 ZA, CC-BY-NC-SA 2.0, CC-BY-NC-SA 2.0 ZA, Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 2.0, Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 2.0 ZA.

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/CreativeCommonsAttributionNoncommercialSharealike20SouthAfrica

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
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.

Terminates on breach: Yes

Clauses

Warranty disclaimer

THE LICENSOR MAKES THE WORK AVAILABLE UNDER THE GOOD FAITH BELIEF THAT LICENCED USE OF THE WORK DOES NOT VIOLATE THE COPYRIGHT OR WHERE APPROPRIATE PERFORMERS’ PROTECTION RIGHTS OF OTHERS. UNLESS OTHERWISE MUTUALLY AGREED TO BY THE PARTIES IN WRITING, LICENSOR OFFERS THE WORK AS-IS ON THE BASIS OF A GOOD FAITH BELIEF THAT IT DOES NOT VIOLATE THE RIGHTS OF OTHERS, AND MAKES NO OTHER REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND CONCERNING THE WORK, EXPRESS, IMPLIED, STATUTORY OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, WARRANTIES OF ACCURACY, OR THE PRESENCE OF ABSENCE OF ERRORS, WHETHER OR NOT DISCOVERABLE AND IF THE WORK INCLUDES SOFTWARE, WARRANTIES OF FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. 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 LICENCE OR THE USE OF THE WORK, EVEN IF LICENSOR HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

Info

Target asset types: Creative work (i.e. text, picture, sound, movie)
Region / jurisdiction: South Africa
Validity: Perpetual
Source: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/za/
Legal code: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/za/legalcode
This description is published under: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Publisher: Creative Commons
SPDX identifier: CC-BY-NC-SA-2.0 (provisional, the record declares none)
Version: 2.0
DALICC identifier: CreativeCommonsAttributionNoncommercialSharealike20SouthAfrica

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/CreativeCommonsAttributionNoncommercialSharealike20SouthAfrica",
  "license-title": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 South Africa",
  "spdx-id": null,
  "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/CreativeCommonsAttributionNoncommercialSharealike20SouthAfrica> .

RDF, JSON-LD

{
  "@context": {
    "cc": "http://creativecommons.org/ns#"
  },
  "@id": "https://example.org/my-work",
  "cc:license": {
    "@id": "https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/CreativeCommonsAttributionNoncommercialSharealike20SouthAfrica"
  }
}

HTML attribution

<p>This work is licensed under <a href="https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/CreativeCommonsAttributionNoncommercialSharealike20SouthAfrica" rel="license">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 South Africa</a>.</p>

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

Badge

Markdown

[![License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 South Africa](https://dalicc.net/license-library/CreativeCommonsAttributionNoncommercialSharealike20SouthAfrica/badge.svg)](https://dalicc.net/license-library/CreativeCommonsAttributionNoncommercialSharealike20SouthAfrica)

HTML

<a href="https://dalicc.net/license-library/CreativeCommonsAttributionNoncommercialSharealike20SouthAfrica"><img src="https://dalicc.net/license-library/CreativeCommonsAttributionNoncommercialSharealike20SouthAfrica/badge.svg" alt="License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 South Africa"></a>

Review

Status: Reviewed against the license text
Last checked: 2026-09-15
Reviewer: Giray Havur
Verdict: corrected during the review
Record changed since this review: yes (version 2, 2026-09-24)
Findings: 20 recorded, 3 applied to the record, 2 proposed, 1 settled in a later version

The record models the BY-NC-SA element set of the Creative Commons 2.0 port for South Africa and it does so correctly: the NonCommercial element prohibits cc:CommercialUse, the ShareAlike element carries a cc:ShareAlike duty, the attribution and notice duties hang on the acts that make the work public. The legal text was read in English and the permissions, prohibitions and duties all follow from the grant and restriction sections of the port. Corrections applied: dct:source. What remains are proposals that touch the whole Creative Commons family rather than this record: the express prohibition of sublicensing, and the asset types.

19 findings

minor Rubric 1 dct:source applied

The record carried cc:legalcode but no dct:source. The legal-code page states the canonical URL of the licence, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/za/, and the six 4.0 International parents carry exactly that pair (legal code plus deed). Added.
info Rubric 1 spdx:licenseId none

SPDX has no identifier for this port. The legal-code URL implies CC-BY-NC-SA-2.0-ZA, which the SPDX licence list does not define, so no identifier was invented. Of the thirty six records in this review group only the German NonCommercial-ShareAlike port has an SPDX identifier.
minor Rubric 2 odrl:target proposed

The record targets dalicc:CreativeWork only, while the 4.0 International parent CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0 targets dalicc:CreativeWork and dcmitype:Dataset. Creative Commons licences are media neutral, and this port grants the rights in all media and formats now known or later devised. Aligning the ports with the parents is a single library wide decision covering every Creative Commons port, so it is left as a proposal rather than applied in thirty six records alone.
info Rubric 3 odrl:permission none

Every modelled permission is supported by the grant. Section 3 grants a "worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive licence, for the duration of the applicable copyright", and adds "The Licence is irrevocable except for breach as set out in this Licence", which no other port in this review group states. The grant covers reproduction, incorporation into collections, distribution, public display, public performance and communication to the public, and the creation and reproduction of derivative works, which the record models as odrl:reproduce, odrl:distribute, odrl:display, odrl:present, odrl:derive and cc:DerivativeWorks.
minor Rubric 3 odrl:permission proposed

The record permits dalicc:chargeDistributionFee while prohibiting cc:CommercialUse. Section 4(b): "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." The vocabulary defines dalicc:chargeDistributionFee as a fee covering the act of providing the work to a third party, so a pure cost recovery fee is arguable under the commercial advantage test of the other five ports, but the statement sits uneasily next to the prohibition and the Japanese port has no such test at all. The same statement is in the 4.0 International parent CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0 and in all one hundred and forty five NonCommercial records of the library, so removing it is one library wide decision, not a defect of this port.
info Rubric 4 odrl:prohibition none

dalicc:ChangeLicense is prohibited, which the licence supports: the licensee may offer the work only under the terms of this licence and may not offer or impose terms that alter or restrict it. dalicc:promote is prohibited, which rests on the reservation of all rights not expressly granted and on the trademark paragraph of the Creative Commons notice, not on a clause of the licence body.
info Rubric 5 odrl:duty none

The attribution and notice duties are present and supported: the licence requires a copy of, or the URI for, the licence with every copy, that all notices referring to the licence and the warranty disclaimer be kept intact, and that credit be given to the author. Attribution is owed to the "Original Author" and the licensee must "keep intact all rights management information for the Work", a South African formulation that the other ports render as copyright notices. The duties hang on odrl:distribute, odrl:modify and odrl:derive, which matches the licence, since the duties are triggered by making the work public rather than by private use. The cc:ShareAlike duty is carried at the level of the odrl:Set, as in the parent CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0.
info Rubric 5 odrl:duty none

The share-alike clause of the 2.0 ports is wider than a flat prohibition of relicensing. Section 4(b): a derivative work may be distributed only under the terms of this licence, a later version with the same licence elements, or a Creative Commons iCommons licence with the same licence elements. The record expresses it as a cc:ShareAlike duty plus a dalicc:ChangeLicense prohibition, which cannot say that a later version of the same licence or another port with the same elements is an acceptable outgoing licence. The 4.0 International parent has the same limitation, and the consistency check would report a conflict if dalicc:ChangeLicense were permitted next to cc:ShareAlike, so the present modelling is the only one the checker allows.
info Rubric 6 dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer none

dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer and dalicc:LiabilityLimitation are quoted verbatim from the English text of this port and not from the English unported version, and they match the disclaimer and the limitation sections of the legal code.
info Rubric 6 dalicc:additionalClauses none

The record has no dalicc:additionalClauses, so the clauses the ODRL policy cannot carry, the reservation of unnamed rights, the downstream offer to recipients, the severability and entire agreement paragraphs and the termination rule, are not visible in the record at all. The whole Creative Commons family is modelled this way.
info Rubric 7 cc:jurisdiction none

cc:jurisdiction is bpicounty:SouthAfrica, which matches the country of the legal-code URL, and dalicc:validityType is dalicc:perpetual, which matches the grant for the duration of copyright. Section 8: "This Licence is governed by the law of South Africa." Note that the jurisdiction field records the legal home of the port, not a territorial limit on the grant: the grant itself is worldwide.
gap Rubric 8 odrl:prohibition none

The licence forbids technological protection measures and the vocabulary has no term for it. Section 4(a): "You may not distribute, publicly display, publicly perform, broadcast, transmit, publish and make available the Work with any technological measures that control access or use of the Work in a manner inconsistent with the terms of this Licence Agreement." Proposed term: dalicc:applyTechnicalProtectionMeasures, an odrl:Action to be used as an odrl:Prohibition. Not modelled, because bending an existing term would be worse than the gap.
gap Rubric 8 record none

The automatic termination of the licence on breach, and the survival of the definitions, the disclaimer, the limitation of liability and the miscellaneous sections, have no vocabulary term. Proposed term: dalicc:terminationOnBreach. The downstream offer to every recipient of the work has none either. Proposed term: dalicc:downstreamOffer.
gap Rubric 8 record none

Section 4(c) restricts the grant so that it may not be exercised "in any manner that violates the moral rights of the author, to be named as author of the Work, and to object to any distortion, mutilation or other modification of the work where such action is or would be prejudicial to the honour or reputation of the author", with an exception for modifications that are absolutely necessary on technical grounds in films, broadcasts and computer programs. Not expressible with the present vocabulary.
info Rubric 8 record none

Section 3 names the South African collecting societies (SAMRO for performance royalties, SARRAL and NORM for mechanical rights). In the ShareAlike and plain Attribution sets the licensor waives the collection right; in the NonCommercial sets the licensor reserves it for uses primarily intended for commercial advantage. Not expressible with the present vocabulary.
info Rubric 9 record none

The consistency check with the forty one axioms of licensedata/dependencygraph/dg_default.ttl reports no conflict, before and after the corrections, and the pre-review baseline listed none for this record either.
info Rubric 10 record none

Port of Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International. After the 4.0 parents were themselves corrected, the deontic model of this record is identical to the parent, statement for statement, apart from odrl:target: the same permissions with the same duties, the same prohibitions and the same set level duties. What differs is the jurisdiction, the language of the legal text and the clause texts, and the version specific clauses of 2.0 that the model does not carry, chiefly the express prohibition of sublicensing, the technological measures clause and the royalty collection arrangements. The compatibility checker cannot tell this record from the other records of the BY-NC-SA element set, across all three versions and every jurisdiction the library holds.
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 7 dalicc:terminatesOnBreach applied

The termination clause of this port reads: "This Licence and the rights granted hereunder will terminate automatically upon any breach by You of the terms of this Licence." The licence ends automatically on a breach and this version of the text has no reinstatement clause, so dalicc:terminatesOnBreach is true and no dalicc:curePeriod is written, as on the unported record of the same version.

Settled in version 2 (1)

settled odrl:prohibition

The licence forbids sublicensing and the record does not say so. Section 4(a): "You may not sublicense the Work." The vocabulary already has dalicc:sublicense, but it is used by no record in the library and its skos:note says so, and the same sentence stands in every Creative Commons 2.0 and 3.0 record, so adding it to thirty six ports alone would split the compatibility behaviour of one family. Proposed as one library wide correction, together with an update of the vocabulary note.

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 content review of 2026-09-15 added 1 identification detail and 1 prohibition, recorded the relation to the record this one was adapted from and recorded the review state. Later changes left endorsement to the default rule of the core dependency graph, recorded which sentence of the text each statement rests on, recorded when the license ends on a breach and named the license the record itself is published under.

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11 changes
- added dalicc:jurisdictionPortOf dalicclib:CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0
  
  Port relation The 2026-09-15 review made the relation between a jurisdiction port and the record it was adapted from explicit in the data.
- added dalicc:licenseVersion "2.0"
  
  Port relation The 2026-09-15 review made the relation between a jurisdiction port and the record it was adapted from explicit in the data.
- added dalicc:reviewStatus dalicc:Reviewed
  
  Review state Every record records how far it has come in the editorial workflow and when it was last checked against the legal text.
- added dalicc:reviewedOn "2026-09-15"^^xsd:date
  
  Review state Every record records how far it has come in the editorial workflow and when it was last checked against the legal text.
- added dalicc:variantKind "jurisdiction-port"
  
  Port relation The 2026-09-15 review made the relation between a jurisdiction port and the record it was adapted from explicit in the data.
- added dct:source <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/za/>
  
  Review finding The record carried cc:legalcode but no dct:source. The legal-code page states the canonical URL of the licence, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/za/, and the six 4.0 International parents carry exactly that pair (legal code plus deed). Added.
- added prohibition dalicc:sublicense
  
  Review decision Review decision 1: every Creative Commons record except the CC0 dedication, plus the Open Database License and the Open Data Commons Attribution License, forbids sublicensing in as many words.
- 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 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 sublicense the Work."
- added dalicc:terminatesOnBreach "true"^^xsd:boolean
  
  Manual edit The termination clause of this port reads: "This Licence and the rights granted hereunder will terminate automatically upon any breach by You of the terms of this Licence."
- 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.
Version 1

The version this model had before the content review of 2026-09-15.

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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.