Board Thread:Admin Noticeboard/@comment-3367060-20160907221019/@comment-8-20160908204345

MarkJira wrote:

The same thing is happening here. Wikis are toatally allowed to move to their own sites, and those sites, and therefore it is the decision of the owners of the new site on what may or may not be done with the content of the site. In this case, I can't imagine the owners of wikipedia.org would be happy with Wikia undeleting the articles, and it seems to me like it's totally within their right to prevent you from doing that.

That's why I said I respect your right to fork. Or to put it another way, you have the right to copy the content and start a new wiki elsewhere.

Wikia (or Wikicities as it was then) deliberately chose to use a free license that allows anyone to copy the content - as long as they attribute the source and keep the license the same. That includes people who want to go somewhere other than Wikia.

What is doesn't mean is that you can dictate what happens to the content when you leave. Wikia can continue to use the content under the same license. And that includes the deleted content.