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by jake-low 2613 days ago
Just FYI, most of the content on Wikipedia is actually dual licensed under CC-BY-SA and GFDL. Both licenses are copyleft licenses; CC0 is more permissive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reusing_Wikipedia_co...

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Yes, but I’m talking about Wikidata (CC0), not Wikipedia (CC-BY-SA).
Whoops, I misread your comment! Sorry about that.
Parts of Wikipedia articles (e.g. some infoboxes [1]) are actually sourced from Wikidata, which is licensed under CC0 [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Infobox_person/Wikida...

[2] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Data_access#Basic_imp...