I believe that the articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License, meaning use of the articles fall under its governance.
More on the license can be read here: http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by/2.5/
Also, from the Wikinews homepage: All content is released under a free license. By making our content perpetually available for free redistribution and use, we hope to contribute to a global digital commons.
So, if you play by the rules of the license, all is well.
- Mike
On Aug 20, 2006, at 10:59 AM, SonicR wrote:
Dear Sirs,
We represent News Search Engine RedTram (http://www.redtram.com/) and would like to add wikinews.org news leads to our news database in different languages. Is it possible for us to get the right to broadcast your news via our news search engine with links to wikinews.org? Maybe it's possible that you provide us with RSS-feeds?
I think that there is no argument against broadcasting Wikinews articles via your news search engine. (Does anyone disagree?) Wikinews articles are released under the terms of the CC-BY 2.5 license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/).
There are several RSS-feeds: http://feeds.feedburner.com/WikinewsLatestNews (English) http://tools.wikimedia.de/~dapete/wikinews-rss/rss-de.php (German) http://www.feedfire.com/site/rss.cgi?ChanContentId=009340 (Spanish) http://tools.wikimedia.pl/~derbeth/wikinews.xml (Polish)
Could you please give us contact information of the person with whom we can discuss the question described above and also the person in charge of technical issues?
Perhaps someone who feels responsible and able can answer to this question.
Project info: RedTram has more than 320 000 visitors daily. RedTram is a multi-language site that delivers news in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Polish, Ukrainian and Russian. RedTram contains more then 1300 English news sources.
Regards, Stefan _______________________________________________ Wikinews-l mailing list Wikinews-l@Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikinews-l