Tangent: “Creative Commons” in that context refers to a whole set of possible licenses, which have substantial differences in what they permit. (Which I interpret as related to different authors having substantially different intuitions of what they consider acceptable informal free-use practice!) In this context, it sounds like what you’re after is closer to informal permission (either for the specific use or broadly) or a full public domain declaration (sometimes formalized as CC-0), but if you do want to use a CC license then you should pick a specific one that you consider appropriate. Using the term “Creative Commons” in a vague way dilutes an important coordination symbol into the general haze of “do what you want so long as you can read the room”, and I would like to push back against that.
Tangent: “Creative Commons” in that context refers to a whole set of possible licenses, which have substantial differences in what they permit. (Which I interpret as related to different authors having substantially different intuitions of what they consider acceptable informal free-use practice!) In this context, it sounds like what you’re after is closer to informal permission (either for the specific use or broadly) or a full public domain declaration (sometimes formalized as CC-0), but if you do want to use a CC license then you should pick a specific one that you consider appropriate. Using the term “Creative Commons” in a vague way dilutes an important coordination symbol into the general haze of “do what you want so long as you can read the room”, and I would like to push back against that.
Good correction, I’m not a lawyer
I hereby release this text under CC-0 1.0 Universal, fully public domain