2009/3/12 Gordon Joly <gordon.j...@pobox.com>: > At 22:17 +0000 12/3/09, David Gerard wrote: >>2009/3/12 Gordon Joly <gordon.j...@pobox.com>:
>>> And was anybody asking the BBC about the use of Open Standards? >>The main problem in the discussions I had was there wasn't a whole lot >>we could do for each other, except convince the BBC to release >>something - ANYTHING - under a proper free licence. This was almost >>impossible, for various obvious and stupid reasons. > Reasons such as this? > http://www.bbc.co.uk/creativearchive/licence/full_licence.shtml Nothing so specific. The main problem was that no-one could work out how to get an actual free content license past the lawyers. We're talking about an industry where CC by-nc-nd counts as radical openness. "Please release just ONE GODDAMN IMAGE." "I'll take it to the lawyers, but I don't think they'll like it ..." - d. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
