Talk:BBC News website expands RSS license terms to allow commercial use

This is a good development for small commercial news sites.

However, the report seems to indicate that BBC is only allowing the re-use of their headlines, not text from the body of the story.

Does anyone else have another interpretation of this announcement? &mdash; DV 23:08, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)

We have an encyclopedia for that
What's good for the goose is good for the gander:

"RSS, which stands for Really Simple Syndication, is a protocol that allows users to aggregate articles from many sources in a program called a 'news reader' or 'aggregator.' A news reader works by reading simple files from user-targeted websites and parsing them into a presentable format."

This is factually true, but it is. Please confine news articles to reporting news. We have a great resource in Wikipedia that allows our stories to focus like a laser on the news aspect of our stories. Leaving all historical and non-news information to Wikipedia will make our stories more concise. &mdash; DV 03:45, 1 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Of course relevant background info/context can be included. Dan100 (Talk) 17:15, 1 May 2005 (UTC)
 * This background material is not only relevant, it is essential. RSS is rather new technology and most of our readers will probably not have heard of it. DouglasGreen 21:42, 1 May 2005 (UTC)