Wikia - creating communities

The term "free content" refers to work which is available for reuse under a licence such as the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). People can not only copy free content, but also modify it and redistribute it (under the terms of the license). It is free as in freedom – the license grants freedoms that copyright normally denies.

A good reason to use Wikia is that all of the content on these sites is perpetually licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License, with no declared Cover Texts and no Invariant Sections. Thus, the content is free to use and will remain free. Images are under various free licenses or fair use.

(The only exception within Wikia is that Désencyclopédie has some pages under a nonfree, noncommercial license. Wikia, Inc. is also hosting some sister projects of Wikia which are not under a free license.)

[edit] See also

• Free Content Definition
• Wikipedia article on free content
• Why Free?, a Wikia about free content and open source