On 12 April 2011 11:48, Magnus Manske magnusmanske@googlemail.com wrote:
I might be mistaken, but doesn't the "-SA" in "CC-BY-SA" require mentioning the license?
Yes.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Reusing_content_outside_Wikimedia
<quote> CC-BY-SA In the Creative Commons Attribution and ShareAlike license (CC-BY-SA), re-users are free to make derivative works and copy, distribute, display, and perform the work, even commercially.
When re-using the work or distributing it, you must attribute the work to the author(s) and you must mention the license terms or a link to them. You must make your version available under CC-BY-SA. </quote>
I don't think that it is a big deal in this case (if this is an isolated case), but if someone feels strongly about it they could point the BBC to the above-mentioned wikimedia page. They really ought to have a policy about reusing content from Wikimedia/Wikipedia, but I suspect they don't.
Andrew