On 25 January 2011 11:26, Alison M. Wheeler wikimedia@alisonwheeler.com wrote:
----- "Thomas Dalton" thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
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.
I would think it likely that as the BBC have already made the decision, in principle, to send h2g2 on its way then expanding the licence to drop any NC requirement would be a highly probable parting gift. Certainly worth asking them to change the licence anyway.
They aren't the copyright holder, though, so I don't think they can change the license. They have a very broad license to use it themselves and to re-license it to trusted third parties, but they don't have the authority (as far as I can tell) to release it under a free licence.