Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0
This is the license on our educational articles, tutorials and other written materials. Its short name is CC BY-NC 4.0. We add one thing to it: an Additional Permission for Internal Training that lets organizations, including companies, train their own employees and contractors with our materials.
In one sentence. Use, change and share our articles for any noncommercial purpose, and train your own staff with them even at a for-profit company, as long as you say where they came from; selling them or using them in paid training needs our permission.
What you can do
- Share it. Copy it, post it, print it, hand it out.
- Change it. Translate it, shorten it, correct it, build a free course around it, turn a tutorial into a video.
- Train your own employees and contractors with it, under the additional permission below, even though that benefits your business.
- Keep doing it. The license cannot be withdrawn. As long as you follow it, permission you already have stays.
What needs our permission
Commercial use. The license covers only uses that are “not primarily intended for or directed towards commercial advantage or monetary compensation” (section 1(i)). Selling the material, putting it behind a paywall, or charging for a course or workshop built on it is commercial use. Apart from training your own employees and contractors, which the additional permission covers, commercial use needs separate written permission from us. Get in touch; we are glad to hear what you have in mind.
What you have to do
- Credit us — name the work, name us as the author, and keep any copyright notice that came with it.
- Link to the license, so the next person knows their rights too.
- Say if you changed it. Not what you changed, just that you did. This protects you as much as us: nobody should think your edits are our words.
- Do not lock it down. You cannot add legal terms or technical measures that stop others doing what this license allows.
Attribution only has to be reasonable for where you are publishing. A footnote in a handout, a credit line under an image, a link in a video description — all fine.
The additional permission for internal training
CC BY-NC on its own would leave a gap. Training staff at a company is done for the company’s benefit, so a company could not be sure the license let it teach its own people with our materials. The additional permission closes that gap. It adds to the license and takes nothing away from it.
What it lets an organization do:
- Copy, adapt, display and distribute the materials within the organization, solely to train its own employees and contractors.
- Put the materials, and its own adaptations, on an access-controlled internal learning platform.
- Have its employees and contractors deliver the training as part of their normal paid duties.
- Do all of this at a for-profit company, worldwide, without paying us.
The conditions:
- Credit us and keep the notices. Keep the credit to Automate the Cloud Inc., any copyright notice, a link to the CC BY-NC 4.0 license, and the permission notice itself. Clearly mark what you changed.
- Employees and contractors only. Access must be limited to the organization’s employees and contractors. A contractor hired to provide training counts as an outside training provider, below.
- No selling and no paid training. You may not sell or license the materials or your adaptations, on their own or bundled with something else. You may not use them in paid courses, workshops, subscriptions or training services for customers or anyone else, and you may not charge your own employees or contractors to access them or attend the training.
- Outside training providers are not covered. A training company cannot use this permission to sell training built on our materials, even to a client who will use it only internally.
- No endorsement. Do not suggest that we endorse, sponsor or certify your organization, your adaptations or your training.
It covers only material we hold the rights to. Third-party content and separately licensed code keep their own licenses.
What it does not cover
- Our name and logo. Section 2(b)(2) of the license states that trademark and patent rights are not licensed. Say where the material came from; do not imply we endorse your version.
- Anyone else’s material we quoted. If an article includes a third party’s image or text under their own terms, our license cannot extend to it. We flag those where we know about them.
- Any promise it is right. Section 5 disclaims warranties. We try hard to be accurate and we fix mistakes, but you are reading at your own risk.
How to credit an article
"Title of the article" by Automate the Cloud Inc., licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0 with the Automate the Cloud Additional Permission for Internal Training. License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Permission: https://automatethe.cloud/licenses/atc-internal-training-permission.txt Original at https://automatethe.cloud/... Changes were made.
Remove the last line if you published it unchanged.
The additional permission, word for word
Below is the complete permission notice. Our summary above has no legal effect; if it ever conflicts with the text below, the text below governs. If you use our materials under this permission, keep a copy of this notice with them. You can download it as a plain text file.
Automate the Cloud Inc. — Additional Permission for Internal Training Educational materials identified as covered by this notice are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ In addition to the permissions granted by that license, Automate the Cloud Inc. grants organizations, including for-profit companies, a worldwide, royalty-free, nonexclusive permission to reproduce, adapt, display, and distribute these materials within their organization solely to train their own employees and contractors. This includes placing materials and adaptations on an access-controlled internal learning platform. This permission applies even when internal training of employees and contractors provides a commercial benefit to the organization, subject to the following conditions: Attribution. Retain credit to Automate the Cloud Inc., existing copyright notices, a link to the CC BY-NC 4.0 license, and this permission notice. Clearly identify modifications. Internal use only. Access under this additional permission must be limited to the organization’s employees and contractors. Employees and contractors may deliver training as part of their normal paid duties. A contractor engaged to provide training services is treated as an outside training provider under the condition below. No sale or paid training offering. This additional permission does not authorize selling, licensing for a fee, or otherwise commercially distributing the materials or adaptations, whether separately or bundled with another product or service. It does not authorize using them in paid courses, workshops, subscriptions, or training services offered to customers or other third parties, or charging employees or contractors to access the materials or attend training incorporating them. Outside training providers. This additional permission does not authorize an outside provider to sell training services incorporating the materials, even when the provider’s customer uses that training internally. No endorsement. Do not imply that Automate the Cloud Inc. endorses, sponsors, or certifies your organization, adaptations, or training. This permission covers only material for which Automate the Cloud Inc. holds the necessary rights. Third-party content and separately licensed software or code remain subject to their respective licenses. This notice grants additional permission; it does not modify or restrict rights available under CC BY-NC 4.0, another applicable license, or applicable law. Except for the limited permission stated above, the CC BY-NC 4.0 terms remain unchanged. Commercial uses outside these permissions require separate written authorization from Automate the Cloud Inc.
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