Wikipedia is changing the license

It was announced today that the Wikimedia Foundation had agreed with the Free Software Foundation and Creative Commons that the new version of the GFDL license would allow the relicensing of GFDL materials under the CC-BY-SA license.

Since Wikipedia materials are available under the license “GFDL version 1.2 or later, without immutable sections and texts on the cover,” it will be possible to switch to Wikipedia license CC-BY-SA. Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike is similar in meaning to the GNU Free Documentation License: distribution, copying and modification of a work is allowed if the modified works are also distributed under the terms of this license, that is, SA guarantees that the work will always remain free (be careful, under the auspices of Creative Commons there are other licenses, the terms of which differ significantly).

What makes CC-BY-SA more convenient:

• do not require distribution along with the product of the accompanying text with the terms of the license (reference is enough);
  easier requirements for specifying the list of authors;
  no need to accompany the work version in a "transparent" (editable) format;
  permits relicensing under similar licenses;
  in many countries (more than 30) there are adaptations of Creative Commons licenses under local legislation, in Russia such work is just beginning;
  CC licenses were originally conceived for various types of work (texts, images, audio, video, etc.) and do not operate with such concepts as a “title page” (which makes GNU FDL created for technical documentation)
  the number of projects from where it is possible to borrow text to Wikipedia is expanding; it is easier to use Wikipedia texts in other projects.