User blog comment:Krayfish/Temporary Leave of Absence/@comment-5870856-20150209184105/@comment-1743498-20150210140459

Thanks! That really means a lot.

I have actually been working on a self-published story which I'm putting on my own site. It's not finished yet, but I am posting it in serialized format. If you guys don't mind blatant advertisement, I could post more details here.

But about licensing, basically the way it works is this: Wikia uses CC-BY-SA as its license. You retain the rights to your work, but anyone is allowed to share, remix or readapt your work provided the original author gets credited. Said remixed work must also use the same license as the original, but there's nothing restricting anyone from using it for commercial purposes. (And wikia sort of already does since whatever money made from ads displayed on this site goes to them.)

Even with this license, neither GC nor ET will likely have any problems in the long term future, but it was still a big enough deal for a large portion of our user base to leave a few years ago. We did try to get the license changed to CC-BY-NC to stop commercial usage, but ultimately we didn't succeed. The only way to remove ourselves from the license completely is to migrate to another site like MediaWiki, but there was not enough user interest for us to go through with it.

More info about licensing here.