On 25 January 2011 08:50, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
On 25 January 2011 07:11, Nikola Smolenski smolensk@eunet.rs wrote:
It is a question however if per http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/help/entry_faqs#copyright and http://www.bbc.co.uk/terms/#4 "In certain circumstance the BBC may also share your contribution with trusted third parties*." would allow for such a release.
Very doubtful indeed. Wikipedia might, conceivably, be considered a trusted third party, but there is no way the rest of world would and we can't accept content that is licensed to Wikipedia only.
It would be nice if the Foundation could help out h2g2, possibly with funding to help get set up independent of the BBC. It's such a historic predecessor to Wikipedia, it just feels like the right thing to do. Unfortunately because it isn't under a free licence, this would probably fall outside our mission.
We should reach out to any researchers who choose to leave though, and we already have a fairly good introduction page for them: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:H2g2
As that page says h2g2 researchers retain copyright to their own entries, so if they want to relicense individual ones for use on wiki projects, that's fine.
Pete / the wub