[Wikipedia-l] BBC planning to open source its archives

[Jimmy O'Regan]

Gerard Meijssen wrote:
> I read this story on Newsforge, the imminence of this (expected THIS 
> fall) makes it really something. The material is of such a quality, the 
> breath of their data, the pictures alone, this is really big news ! As 
> the article says, openining up this content to the public, will make the 
> British culture much more important.
> 
> The license they will use will be the Creative Commons license.
They will use *a* Creative Commons licence - there are several.

The Newsforge story title is misleading, as this will not be open 
source; they will not be allowing commercial use of their material.
> 
> http://trends.newsforge.com/trends/04/09/14/0715249.shtml
> 
> Thanks,
>    GerardM