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QUESTION

I wrote a 50 page manual that I plan to release for free. I do not mind if the book is copied, translated, printed, shared, ... I just want two things:

1. I am the only person who can sell a copy of this manual on Amazon (and others).
2. If anybody uses the material from the book that the original author (me) is mentioned somewhere.

Under which license should I publish the book?

ANSWER

The closest fit would be Creative Commons "Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike". That will allow translations (and expansions, clarifications, electronic versions and so forth) but prevent commercial distribution of the original or any derived version.

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