What's the beauty of putting your content under a creative commons license?

For years I've put all my content under a sort of contract which allows people to copy, modify all my content as long as they mention me somewhere. I do that with the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International.

The great thing that happened with this is that people around the world could then translate my books into their local language. They don't even have to ask. Many did but the contract doesn't request that.

The specific license I use says that people can't make money with the adapted content that comes from my work. Which then has a nice side effect: all this new content that people make is then available to even more people. It's a nice positive loop.

And from time to time, people ask me if they can make a paid translation because they'll invest some money on their side for proofreaders and so, and then I mostly always say yes.

Over the years the community has translated my books, turned articles into videos, adapted my writing to be without my street language to be culturally more adequate, etc. Pretty cool stuff.

I really like this creative commons licence, and I think that in the future I'll make it even clearer on this website that all the original content I have created is under that license, not just the books and courses.