What license should I use instead of now-retired CC-SA ?

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What license should I use instead of now-retired CC-SA ?

I wrote a document about my application and want a license that allows people to:

Modify
Use commercially
Share alike
All that with no attribution hassle at all

CC-SA looks perfect but its page says:
"This license is retired. Do not use for new works."

GFDL is burdensome when printing so it won't do either.

What license should I use?

If you want what appears to be a pretty permissive license, perhaps consider the MIT License.

However, the MIT License does not require share-alike. If you specifically need something of this nature, perhaps browse through this comparision:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_free_software_licenses

Amber 2010-10-13 03:29:08

I think the MIT license is "share alike" in the Creative Commons meaning. The MIT license says: "The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software." isn't it what "Share alike" means?

Nicolas Raoul 2010-10-13 07:01:16

@Nicolas: Not quite. MIT only requires that you distribute the *original* work under the same license if you distribute it. The CC meaning of share-alike is that any *derivative* works must also be distributed under the same license. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Share-alike

Amber 2010-10-13 16:15:28

Do you mean I can modify an MIT work and then distribute it under a proprietary license? That is clearly forbidden by the MIT license as I read it.

Nicolas Raoul 2010-10-14 02:01:10

"It is a permissive license, meaning that it permits reuse within proprietary software on the condition that the license is distributed with that software." Quoted from WP page for the MIT license.

Amber 2010-10-14 02:16:12

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