Below is part of your answer, the statements are old and may be more statements that official policy of the board. If you want a direct answer for the Foundation's existing policy, then I would suggest writing to legal(a)wikimedia.org and ask for them to direct you to the current policy. -- billinghurst https://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Copyright_policy Non-commercial licenses Although Wikisource itself does not make commercial use of works, its license does allow redistributors to make such commercial use. Therefore, works with non-commercial licenses are prohibited from Wikisource. Such licenses are prohibited by decision of the President of the Wikimedia Foundation, as indicated by the 2004 message by Jimbo Wales <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimbo_Wales> entitled "WikiEN-l, Use of noncommercial-only images <http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2004-April/012156.html>". In 2006, Jimbo Wales explicitly confirmed in #wikimedia <irc://irc.freenode.net/#wikimedia> that this decision applied to Wikisource, declaring that "Noncommercial-only licenses are basically the same thing as torturing kittens." Angela <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Angela>, board member, has also explicitly stated noncommercial licenses are unacceptable; see "Foundation-l, Juriwiki-l, Re: Copyright complaints <http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2006-February/006015.html>". ------ Original Message ------ From: "Jayanta Nath" &lt;jayantanth(a)gmail.com&gt; To: "discussion list for Wikisource, the free library" &lt;wikisource-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt; Sent: 4/02/2018 11:35:34 PM Subject: Re: [Wikisource-l] Can any local language Wikisource release their few books in CC BY-NC-ND 3.0