At 23:13 +0000 12/3/09, David Gerard wrote:
>2009/3/12 Gordon Joly <[email protected]>:
>>  At 22:17 +0000 12/3/09, David Gerard wrote:
>>>2009/3/12 Gordon Joly <[email protected]>:
>
>>>>   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.
>
>_______


And "Desert Island Discs"? Any chance?

Gordo

-- 
"Think Feynman"/////////
http://pobox.com/~gordo/
[email protected]///

_______________________________________________
Wikimedia UK mailing list
[email protected]
http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l
WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org

Reply via email to