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Funding edit
It would be helpful if there was information about how Pixabay is funded. I can't find anything anywhere related to the costs of running this very large site. It seems to exist via donations but it's not clear. Gillyweed (talk) 03:12, 20 April 2017 (UTC)
Not Public Domain edit
Since the 10 January 2019, they re-licensed all user images to proprietary license, which disallows redistribution. https://pixabay.com/en/forum/official-pixabay-news-2/the-pixabay-license-7823/ https://pixabay.com/en/service/terms/#license The Pixabay License does not allow:
sale or distribution of Images or Videos as digital stock photos or as digital wallpapers; sale or distribution of Images or Videos e.g. as a posters, digital prints or physical products, without adding any additional elements or otherwise adding value; depiction of identifiable persons in an offensive, pornographic, obscene, immoral, defamatory or libelous way; or any suggestion that there is an endorsement of products and services by depicted persons, brands, and organisations, unless permission was granted.
NikitaSadkov (talk) 22:28, 9 January 2019 (UTC)
Also, the article should talk about the actual effects of this (Pixabay cannot legaly copyright work which already is PD). --109.115.39.202 (talk) 21:20, 30 March 2019 (UTC)
Copyleft edit
Because Pixabay's own license terms I'd say it's no longer copyleft. They are not allowing redistributing files on other platforms but redistribution is allowed under copyleft.
Self-promotional material edit
This page was obviously written by the marketing department at Pixabay, obvious not only from the unencyclopedic high praise lavished on the site, but also from the very Germanic English it was written in. I think I've removed most of the self-promotional material so I don't think the page needs a "self-promotional" template right now. It still relies too heavily on primary sources though, so I've added that one template to the page.2001:240:2403:D714:429:2E11:C754:BB1F (talk) 03:18, 17 December 2020 (UTC)