I'm curious about this too because, someday when I learn how to record Minetest videos for YouTube, I'd like to be able to make some extra income from AdSense or whatever YouTube uses.
I posted this thread's link on freenode #minetest to see if anyone had experience on this issue. As yet, there has been no "experienced" input. While chatting I did a bit of quick research and found two links of interest.
It looks like you
("you" being anyone reading this) are
not allowed to make any money from using anything that is CC-by-NC:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/Another set of examples, in layman's terms:
http://mollykleinman.com/2008/08/21/cc-howto-2-how-to-use-a-work-with-a-noncommercial-license/Where I get confused is by what they mean by "use".
If I post a YouTube video of me driving a nail into a 2x4 with a "MasterCraftsman" brand hammer, but the video is about how to nail a couple pieces of wood together with a hammer and nail, am I supposed to pay royalties to MasterCraftsman?
If one uses a mod or texture pack in their YouTube video, they are not selling the mod or the texture pack. In fact, they are not selling anything at all - Google is. It is Google who decides what ads to put in the adsense slots. It is Google who gets paid first and then, if the YouTuber gets enough views, clicks, or whatever metric is used, then the YouTuber gets a tiny sliver of Google's ad revenues.
But in the
second link I posted, there is the "Three pairs of mini examples" paragraph, example number 3:
"Using a photo on a personal website that has no ads = Non-commercial Using a photo on an ad-supported website = Commercial"That last part,
"Using a photo on an ad-supported (ie, monetizing with Google's AdSense) website = Commercial" , I think, is the trip-up that means you are not allowed to use the CC-by-NC stuff in your YouTube videos if you get any money out of it.
I'm not a lawyer so I may be completely wrong on this. I'm hoping those with more experience and insight chime-in on this thread.