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Questions tagged [cc-by-nc-sa]

The -NC licenses are not open source licenses, please ensure your question is about an open source issue.

The Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license, one of the Creative Commons family of licenses; however, the "NonCommercial" restriction makes this not an open source license as defined by this site.

While questions around the general philosophy of the license and/or why it is not open source may be on-topic on this site, questions which ask whether a specific action counts as "commercial" or not have generally been closed as off-topic.

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Does CC BY-NC-SA require me to share PDF of a printed booklet?

I have modified a work, that is a series of paper booklets, under CC BY-NC-SA, and redistributing those under the same licence. Does the licence requires to give the PDF (PDF of the printed booklets) if someone asks for it?
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Copyrightablity of word lists

If a dictionary is published under CC BY-NC-SA and one takes out a word list and publishes it after modifying it for some purpose without the definitions . Will CC BY-NC-SA still apply? The use is commercial.
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creativecommons by-nc-sa 4.0 Non Commercial Virality?

How far does the Non Commercial aspect of by-nc-sa stretch? E.g. someone published a JSON Schema for an (external to both of us) set of JSON files that I wish to validate without a license. I asked them if they could license it so I could use it in…
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