diff --git a/LICENSE.md b/LICENSE.md
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@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, PO Box 1866, Mountain View, CA 94042, USA.
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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+++ b/README.md
@@ -109,11 +109,7 @@ The following SDLang features are removed altogether:
* Shell style (`#`) and Lua-style (`--`) comments
* Distinction between 32/64/128-bit numbers. There's just numbers.
-## LICENSE
+## License
+
+
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
-This specification is covered under the
-[CC-BY-SA](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/) license. You are
-free to write tools that handle KDL without worrying about licensing
-weirdness. If you fork KDL into your own language and base it on this
-specification, though, please make sure to publish that fork and clearly
-attribute/link to this project.