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2026

Archived version 1 of 2. This is how the model read before it was corrected. It is shown read only. The current version is here.

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 Generic

Also known as Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike 2.5 Generic, Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5, Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 Generic, CC BY NC SA 2.5, CC BY-NC-SA 2.5, CC-BY-NC-SA 2.5, CC-BY-NC-SA-2.5, Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike 2.5 Generic, Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 2.5.

Commercial use
not allowed
Share alike
required
Attribution
required (keep the copyright and license notices)
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Canonical URI https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/CC-BY-NC-SA-2.5

Permissions

  • Charge distribution fee from the text Charging a fee for the act of providing a copy of the work to someone else.
  • Derivative works from the text Distributing an adaptation of the work and making it available to the public.
  • Derive from the text Creating a new work from the work, such as a translation, adaptation or arrangement of it or of a part of it.

    Duties

    • Attribution from the text Giving credit to the copyright holders or authors of the work, in the form the licensor asks for.
    • Modification notice from the text Marking a changed work as changed, saying how it differs from the original and keeping earlier notices of change.
    • Notice from the text Notice: keeping the license and copyright notices with every copy.
  • Display from the text Showing the work to the public without making a copy the viewer keeps.
  • Distribute from the text Providing copies of the work to the public or to anyone else.

    Duties

    • Attribution from the text Giving credit to the copyright holders or authors of the work, in the form the licensor asks for.
    • Notice from the text Notice: keeping the license and copyright notices with every copy.
  • Modified works from the text Distributing a modified version of the work that does not amount to a new, derivative work.
  • Modify from the text Altering the work, for example by updating it, without creating a new work; an alteration that creates a new work is Derive.

    Duties

    • Attribution from the text Giving credit to the copyright holders or authors of the work, in the form the licensor asks for.
    • Modification notice from the text Marking a changed work as changed, saying how it differs from the original and keeping earlier notices of change.
    • Notice from the text Notice: keeping the license and copyright notices with every copy.
  • Present from the text Performing the work in public, including by broadcast or other communication to the public.
  • Reproduce from the text Making copies of the work in any form.

Prohibitions

  • Change license from the text Not permitted: Change license. Replacing the license of the work, or of an adaptation, with another license, or changing its terms.
  • Commercial use from the text Not permitted: Commercial use. Using the work to generate income, directly or indirectly, for example by selling it or by using it in advertising.
  • Promote from the text Not permitted: Promote. Using the name or trademarks of the licensor or of contributors to endorse or promote a product.
  • Royalty collection reserved from the text Not permitted: Royalty collection reserved. Collecting royalties for uses of the work, individually or through a collecting society, under a right the licensor keeps.
  • Sublicense from the text Not permitted: Sublicense. Granting a third party rights in the work under a license of the licensee's own, rather than passing on the original license.

License-wide duties

  • Share alike from the text Adaptations have to be licensed under the same license or one the license names as compatible.

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.

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/2.5/
Legal code
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/legalcode
This description is published under
https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/CC-BY-4.0
Publisher
Creative Commons
SPDX identifier
CC-BY-NC-SA-2.5 on the SPDX license list
Version
2.5
DALICC identifier
CC-BY-NC-SA-2.5

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.

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.

  1. 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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    12 changes

    • 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.

  2. Version 1

    Created from the license text on 2026-09-22 (Creative Commons 2.5 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.