Is Wikipedia under CC license?
Most of Wikipedia’s text and many of its images are co-licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License (CC BY-SA) and the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) (unversioned, with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts).
Why is copyrighted content not allowed on Wikipedia?
Because the database servers are located in the United States, Wikipedia is subject to US copyright law in this matter and may not host material which infringes US copyright law.
Is it legal to quote Wikipedia?
If you want to use Wikipedia’s text materials in your own books/articles/web sites or other publications, you can generally do so, but you must comply with one of the licenses that Wikipedia’s text is licensed under. Neither the Wikimedia Foundation nor the authors of material on Wikimedia sites provide legal advice.
Which one of the following is not under CC Licence?
One must credit the creator, the title, and the license the work is under. Non-Commercial: Any use of the work must be for non-commercial purposes only. For example, file sharing, educational use, and film festivals are all allowed, but advertising and for-profit uses are not.
Do you need a CC BY SA license to use Wikipedia?
Wikipedia’s general content is co-licensed, and it is more convenient for our reusers to have material available under both licenses, but it is not essential when importing text from external sites authored by others. For images, you are not limited to CC BY-SA: any free license will do.
What kind of license do I need for Wikipedia?
See Wikipedia:Text of Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License for Wikipedia’s license. A Creative Commons ( CC) license is one of several public copyright licenses that enable the free distribution of an otherwise copyrighted “work”.
Is the content of the Wikipedia website copyrighted?
Wikipedia’s textual content is copyrighted, but you may reuse it under the terms of our licensing requirements, summarized below.
Do you need permission to cite an article on Wikipedia?
See Wikipedia:Citing Wikipedia for information about the proper citation of articles. No permission is needed to create a hyperlink to Wikipedia or its articles. Images used in Wikipedia may have their own, completely independent licensing scheme.