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by pksadiq 1084 days ago
This specific change shall excite many as CC BY-SA 4.0 is one way GPLv3 compatible, but CC BY-SA 3.0 is not. Which means that free software developers can now embedded many Wikimedia contents in their GPLv3 applications. This seems not mentioned in the blog post though.
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Incompatibilities between content and code licences has been a perennial problem for FOSS video games. CC-BY-SA-4.0 is an important step in the right direction!