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Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Australia

Jurisdiction port of Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0, adapted to the law of Australia. DALICC groups ports under the 4.0 International license of the same elements. The legal texts differ; the model states the same permissions, duties and prohibitions for both.

Also known as Attribution ShareAlike 2.0 Australia, Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0, Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Australia, CC BY SA 2.0, CC BY SA 2.0 AU, CC BY-SA 2.0, CC BY-SA 2.0 AU, CC-BY-SA 2.0, CC-BY-SA 2.0 AU, Creative Commons BY-SA 2.0, Creative Commons BY-SA 2.0 AU.

Commercial use
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/CreativeCommonsAttributionSharealike20Australia

Permissions

  • Charge distribution fee from the text Charging a fee for the act of providing a copy of the work to someone else.
  • Commercial use from the text Using the work to generate income, directly or indirectly, for example by selling it or by using it in advertising.
  • 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.
  • Sublicense from the text Not permitted: Sublicense. The text says: "You may not sublicense the Work." 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.

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) Using the name or trademarks of the licensor or of contributors to endorse or promote a product.

    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

EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY STATED IN THIS LICENCE OR OTHERWISE MUTUALLY AGREED TO BY THE PARTIES IN WRITING, AND TO THE FULL EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, LICENSOR OFFERS THE WORK "AS-IS" AND MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND CONCERNING THE WORK, EXPRESS, IMPLIED, STATUTORY OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS REGARDING THE CONTENTS OR ACCURACY OF THE WORK, OR OF TITLE, MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NONINFRINGEMENT, THE ABSENCE OF LATENT OR OTHER DEFECTS, OR THE PRESENCE OR ABSENCE OF ERRORS, WHETHER OR NOT DISCOVERABLE.

Limitation of liability

TO THE FULL EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, AND EXCEPT FOR ANY LIABILITY ARISING FROM CONTRARY MUTUAL AGREEMENT AS REFERRED TO IN SECTION 5, IN NO EVENT WILL LICENSOR BE LIABLE TO YOU ON ANY LEGAL THEORY (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, NEGLIGENCE) FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE WHATSOEVER, INCLUDING (WITHOUT LIMITATION) LOSS OF PRODUCTION OR OPERATION TIME, LOSS, DAMAGE OR CORRUPTION OF DATA OR RECORDS; OR LOSS OF ANTICIPATED SAVINGS, OPPORTUNITY, REVENUE, PROFIT OR GOODWILL, OR OTHER ECONOMIC LOSS; OR ANY SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH 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
Australia
Validity
Perpetual
Source
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/au/
Legal code
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/au/legalcode
This description is published under
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Publisher
Creative Commons
SPDX identifier
CC-BY-SA-2.0 (provisional, the record declares none)
Version
2.0
DALICC identifier
CreativeCommonsAttributionSharealike20Australia

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/CreativeCommonsAttributionSharealike20Australia",
  "license-title": "Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Australia",
  "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/CreativeCommonsAttributionSharealike20Australia> .

RDF, JSON-LD 

{
  "@context": {
    "cc": "http://creativecommons.org/ns#"
  },
  "@id": "https://example.org/my-work",
  "cc:license": {
    "@id": "https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/CreativeCommonsAttributionSharealike20Australia"
  }
}

HTML attribution 

<p>This work is licensed under <a href="https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/CreativeCommonsAttributionSharealike20Australia" rel="license">Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Australia</a>.</p>

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

Badge DALICC badge for Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Australia

Markdown 

[![License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Australia](https://dalicc.net/license-library/CreativeCommonsAttributionSharealike20Australia/badge.svg)](https://dalicc.net/license-library/CreativeCommonsAttributionSharealike20Australia)

HTML 

<a href="https://dalicc.net/license-library/CreativeCommonsAttributionSharealike20Australia"><img src="https://dalicc.net/license-library/CreativeCommonsAttributionSharealike20Australia/badge.svg" alt="License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Australia"></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
19 recorded, 3 applied to the record, 1 proposed, 1 settled in a later version

The record models the BY-SA element set of the Creative Commons 2.0 port for Australia and it does so correctly: 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.

18 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-sa/2.0/au/, 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-SA-2.0-AU, 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-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, perpetual (for the duration of the applicable copyright) licence". 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.

  • 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", with the title, the licensor URI and, for a derivative work, a credit identifying the use made of the work. 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-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): "You may publish, communicate to the public, distribute, publicly exhibit or display, publicly perform, or publicly digitally perform a Derivative Work only under the terms of this Licence, a later version of this Licence with the same Licence Elements as this Licence, or a Creative Commons iCommons licence that contains the same Licence Elements as this Licence." 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:Australia, 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: "The construction, validity and performance of this Licence shall be governed by the laws in force in New South Wales, Australia." 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 publish, communicate to the public, distribute, publicly exhibit or 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 Licence." 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

    The port adds two moral-rights restrictions that the 4.0 International text does not carry as separate clauses: "False attribution prohibited" (Section 4(e)) and "Prejudice to honour or reputation prohibited" (Section 4(f)), both resting on the defined term "Moral rights law". Neither is expressible with the present vocabulary.

  • info Rubric 8 record none

    Sections 4(c) and 4(d) reserve to the licensor the exclusive right to collect performance, mechanical and webcasting royalties, individually or through a collecting society (ASCAP, BMI, SESAC, Harry Fox Agency, SoundExchange are named), where the use is primarily intended for or directed toward commercial advantage. The Australian port keeps this reservation in every element set, including plain Attribution, so even the BY record is not a full royalty waiver. The 4.0 International parent waives the collection right instead. The reservation is 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-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-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.

  1. Version 2 current2026-09-24 Giray Havur

    The content review of 2026-09-15 added 1 identification detail and 1 prohibition, changed 4 alternative titles, 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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    15 changes

    • added dalicc:jurisdictionPortOf dalicclib:CC-BY-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.

    • changed dct:alternative "CC BY SA 2.0 AU"

      was dct:alternative "CC BY SA 2.0 au"

      Review decision Review decision 16: the ISO country code in the alternative title is upper case.

    • changed dct:alternative "CC BY-SA 2.0 AU"

      was dct:alternative "CC BY-SA 2.0 au"

      Review decision Review decision 16: the ISO country code in the alternative title is upper case.

    • changed dct:alternative "CC-BY-SA 2.0 AU"

      was dct:alternative "CC-BY-SA 2.0 au"

      Review decision Review decision 16: the ISO country code in the alternative title is upper case.

    • changed dct:alternative "Creative Commons BY-SA 2.0 AU"

      was dct:alternative "Creative Commons BY-SA 2.0 au"

      Review decision Review decision 16: the ISO country code in the alternative title is upper case.

    • added dct:source <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/au/>

      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-sa/2.0/au/, 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.

  2. 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.