Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Started/@comment-25184428-20140716054933/@comment-24376429-20140716115434

It is completely legal (remember to remove Wikias logos but not credits footer). Wikia is an open source company that releases their code under various licenses (namely GNU GPL v2). The only reason why you shouldn't try to host the software yourself is because the software has been tailored and optimized specifically for Wikias architecture and is very hard to port to other hosting.