[Wikimedia-l] BBC Open Content

David Gerard dgerard at gmail.com
Tue Apr 10 16:33:01 UTC 2012


On 10 April 2012 17:30, Richard Symonds
<richard.symonds at wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:

> There's also a "no promotion" clause - you can't use the work to promote
> your organisation. This is above and beyond the normal 'no derogatory use'
> clause...


This sounds like a licence that deserves to die a death.

OTOH, actual free-as-in-freedom content reliably explodes heads in the
content industry. Me on the phone, multiple times:

"But we can't just lose control of our stuff!"
"It works for us. You called me, after all."


- d.



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