Re: [Fsfe-uk] Fwd: Creative Archive - Next Steps

[MJ Ray]

On 2004-06-01 03:12:12 +0100 Tom Chance <address@hidden> wrote:

> I'd suggest this is something that everyone in the FFII, AFFS and 
> UKCDR 
> should be signing, as well as the organisations themselves.

Why? It appears to support anti-commercial licensing, which free 
software cannot have. If we want the BBC to release things from the 
archive as free software, then we should send a different letter 
requesting that, not sign this one.

Then again, it is being difficult enough to pursuade BBC to properly 
support open information formats on Astra 2. There's the 
BBC-co-invented teletext standard, the EIT-based 7-day EPG (programme 
guide), or MHEG standard ("digital text") which could be used as well 
as/instead of the Sky-bought OpenTV formats. That would allow open, 
Linux-based receivers to make better use of BBC's broadcasts.

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