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WikiBusines content license: open to people, search and AI, closed to commercial use

Our guides, explanations and datasets may be read, quoted and shared with a link. Search engines and AI models may index them, analyse them and use them for training for educational, training and informational purposes. Commercial use, copying, rewriting and adaptations for commercial purposes require our written permission.

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editorial contentwikibusines.com

CC BY-NC 4.0

✓Read, quote and share with a link
✓Index and display in search and AI
✓Analysis and training by AI models
✕Commercial use without consent

Conditioncredit "WikiBusines (wikibusines.com)" and link to the source page

CC BY-NC 4.0license of the editorial content

4open uses: reading, search, AI answers, model training

1restriction: commercial use only with written consent

12.11.2026effective date

01License

CC BY-NC 4.0 license: what is open and what needs consent

Everything below applies to the editorial layer of wikibusines.com: guides in the blog, explanations on service pages, FAQ answers, the llms.txt and llms-full.txt profiles, entities.json and the public datasets in /downloads and /datasets.

Open to everyone

Read, quote, share and translate the content non-commercially, with a link to the source page.
Index it and display it in search engines and in the answers of AI assistants.
Collect and analyse the content with search-engine and AI-model crawlers, including for training models, for educational, training and informational purposes.
Open pages with agents at the request of a user.

Only with written consent

Commercial use: in paid products, services, courses, advertising, or on sites that earn revenue from this content.
Copying for commercial purposes: reprinting articles, guides and datasets on commercial sites and in commercial databases.
Rewriting and adaptations for commercial purposes: rewrites, adaptations and translations used commercially, as described by CC BY-NC 4.0.

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02What is and is not allowed

Use of the content: what is open and what is not

Search, AI answers and model training are open. Consent is needed only for commercial use, copying, rewriting and adaptations for commercial purposes. The portal, the API and client materials are closed entirely.

Use	Status
Indexing and display in search engines (Google, Bing, Baidu and others)	Permitted
Search and answers of AI systems, retrieval (OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot, Claude-SearchBot and others)	Permitted
Agents that load pages at a user's request (ChatGPT-User, Claude-User and others)	Permitted
Collection, analysis and training of AI models for educational, training and informational purposes (GPTBot, Google-Extended, ClaudeBot, CCBot and others)	Permitted
Non-commercial quoting, sharing and translation with a link to the source	Permitted
Commercial use, copying, rewriting and adaptations for commercial purposes	Only with written consent
Client portal, API responses, everything under /portal and /api	Not permitted
Confidential client materials of any kind	No implied license

03Attribution

Attribution example: how to credit the source correctly

The name and the link to the page the material is taken from. Below are examples for text, for HTML and for an AI answer.

Text

Source: WikiBusines (wikibusines.com), https://www.wikibusines.com/ua/blog/…, CC BY-NC 4.0

HTML

<a href="https://www.wikibusines.com/ua/blog/…">WikiBusines (wikibusines.com)</a>, CC BY-NC 4.0

AI answer

Source: https://www.wikibusines.com/ua/blog/…

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04Exclusions

What the license does not cover: the name, the portal, third-party materials, legal texts

1
The name and wordmark WikiBusines, the logo, as well as client names and materials prepared for clients.
2
Everything inside the client portal (/portal) and API responses; see the TDM reservation in tdmrep.json.
3
Third-party materials that we quote (screenshots, excerpts from sources): their original licenses apply.
4
Legal documents (terms, offer agreement, privacy policy): they may be read for information, but no right of reuse is granted.

05Declarations for machines

Machine-readable declarations: robots.txt and tdmrep.json

The same policy is read by programs: the Content-Signal line in robots.txt (search: yes, ai-input: yes, ai-train: yes) and the W3C TDMRep file /.well-known/tdmrep.json (text and data mining of public content is not reserved; only the portal and the API are closed).

robots.txt

Content-Signal: search=yes, ai-input=yes, ai-train=yes

/.well-known/tdmrep.json

location: /          tdm-reservation: 0
location: /portal/*  tdm-reservation: 1
location: /api/*     tdm-reservation: 1

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06Effect and questions

Effect of the license: from 12 November 2026

The CC BY-NC 4.0 license applies from 12.11.2026. Copies of our content made earlier remain under the license that applied at the time of copying. Permission for commercial use must be given in writing, through the contact page.