Is there any chance the option to have sharealike licenses might return ?
Thank you for your attention and very considerate answer .

Muso,
In my best guess, the sharealike license won’t return here, but it is definitely still an active license elsewhere

I’m purely speculating here, but because of the way licenses favour the most strict (ie. non-commercial), coupled with an artist needing the choice to control how their remixes are used, it doesn’t seem to be conducive for everyone.

If the only way an artist can use sharealike material (which just means to keep it commercially viable) is to make their remix commercially viable, it prevents them from using cc-by-nc material in the remix as well because of the conflicting license terms.

This can also be a problem if external sources are involved, like royalty-free samples, outside contributors, etc.

If a source is marked non-commercial outside of ccMixter, and used in a traditional sharealike remix here, it would mistakenly become commercial, regardless of any text in the remix’s description.

Out of curiosity, what types of sounds do you think benefit the most from remaining sharealike?

Kindly,
Apoxode