2009/3/12 Gordon Joly <gordon.joly(a)pobox.com>om>:
At 22:17 +0000 12/3/09, David Gerard wrote:
>2009/3/12 Gordon Joly <gordon.joly(a)pobox.com>om>:
>> 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.
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.
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