Software license restricting commercial usage like CC BY-NC-SA

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Published on 2011-09-25T17:21:44Z Indexed on 2011/11/28 2:02 UTC
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I want to distribute my software under license like Creative Commons Attribution - Non commercial - Share Alike license, i.e.

Redistribution of source code and binaries is freely.
Modified version of program have to be distributed under the same license. Attribution to original project should be supplied to.
Restrict any kind of commercial usage.

However CC does not recommend to use their licenses for software. Is there this kind of software license I could apply? Better if public license, but as far as I know US laws says that only EULA could restrict usage of received copy?

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