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? — 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 {{not news}}. 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. — 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)