licensing creative-commons
Commercial use of a tutorial with CC-BY-NC-SA license
<p>I have an online programming tutorial published with CC-BY-NC-SA license.</p>

<p>Does the NC (Non-Commercial) mean that no one may print it and sell as a book?</p>

<p>Does it mean that no one may publish it on their website and put ads to get money from it?</p>

<p>P.S. And, for what it's worth, if I accept contributions from other people, how can I ensure that I still can do what I described here? Sell/put ads/do whatever I do when the book is fully mine.</p>

<p>Many argue that "NC" doesn’t allow someone selling the work or using advertisements next to it, but <a href="https://law.stackexchange.com/a/11574/105">some argue</a> that "NC" does allow selling/advertisements as long as no profit is made. </p>

<p>The license itself doesn’t seem to define it clearly. See:</p>

<ul>
<li>Creative Common’s FAQ <a href="https://creativecommons.org/faq/#does-my-use-violate-the-noncommercial-clause-of-the-licenses" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Does my use violate the NonCommercial clause of the licenses?</a> </li>
<li>Creative Common’s wiki page <a href="https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/NonCommercial_interpretation" rel="nofollow noreferrer">NonCommercial interpretation</a></li>
</ul>

<p>If you include contributions which are licensed to you under <em>CC BY-SA-NC</em>, you <a href="https://opensource.stackexchange.com/a/5761/138">have to follow the license yourself</a>. You may only ignore the license if you are the sole copyright holder or if you got the permission from the contributors (they could license their contributions under a compatible license to you, they could accept <a href="https://opensource.stackexchange.com/a/5804/138">a CLA</a>, etc.).</p>
