I would like to point out that in the past, there have been discussions about copying news from sources that have compatible licenses.

The main points of contention center on our requirement of multiple sources and NPOV.

Here is one archived discussion (please don't add to it):
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Water_cooler/policy/Archive/17#Articles_based_on_public_domain_.28VOA.29_material_-_Part_II

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On Mon, 2009-07-06 at 11:08 -0600, bawolff wrote:
Oh apparently we already do:
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Public_domain_news_sources
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On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 4:01 AM, Tris Thomas<tris@waterhay.co.uk> wrote:
> Good idea if we don't.
>
>
>
> On 6 Jul 2009, at 10:51, bawolff <bawolff+wn@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Out of curiosity, do we have a central list somewhere of people who do
>> have compatible licenses? Off the top of my head i can think of Beta,
>> VoA, and that Brazil one. We should have a list somewhere, as i'm sure
>> there are others we've discovered and subsequently collectively forgot
>> about.
>> --
>> - Bawolff
>> Caution: The mass of this product contains the energy equivalent of 85
>> million tons of TNT per net ounce of weight.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 3:01 AM, Joe Anderson<computerjoe@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> On 2009-07-05 23:16:58 +0100, "Brian McNeil"
>>> <brian.mcneil@wikinewsie.org> said:
>>>
>>>> http://en.rian.ru/docs/about/copyright.html
>>>
>>> Okay.
>>>
>>> I might drop them an email later to confirm (especially considering
>>> FR
>>> Wikinews are).
>>>
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