<noinclude>{{short description|Wikipedia policy with legal considerations}}
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{{for|the full non-free content use guideline (including this policy and its criteria)|Wikipedia:Non-free content}}
{{dablink|"WP:EDP" redirects here. You may have been looking for [[Wikipedia:EDP Sciences|EDP Sciences]].}}
{{legal policy|WP:FUC|WP:NFCC}}
{{nutshell|Respect the rules of non-free content and only use non-free content as a last resort.}}
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<includeonly>: ''</includeonly>As per the [[wmf:Resolution:Licensing policy|Wikimedia Foundation Licensing policy resolution of March 23, 2007]], this document serves as the '''Exemption Doctrine Policy''' for the English Wikipedia.<includeonly>''</includeonly><ref>At the time of the Resolution's issuance on March 23, 2007, the page [[WP:Non-free content]] served as the exemption doctrine policy and is referenced by the Resolution. Since then, the content has been moved around, specifically [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Non-free_content/Archive_18#This_page_needs_to_be_renamed. discussed the following May], and now [[WP:Non-free content criteria]] serves as the exemption doctrine policy, while [[WP:Non-free content]] serves as guidance for this.</ref>
