[Nottingham] BBC Radio4 program tonight 01/06/2009: 'open source' computer software

Tom Bird tom at marmot.org.uk
Fri Jun 5 18:32:45 UTC 2009


James Dobson wrote:
>> secret location for anyone who wants it... unless you're a 
>> copyright enforcer, in which case, I don't have a copy :)
> 
> I find it hard to believe that a FTA transmission that can be
> recorded by numerous different methods could uphold any complaint
> about hosting an unaltered version, I think if you had the latest
> doctor who episode they might be more upset as the content has much
> value than say a radio show about an OS which apparently has less
> than 1% market share (on the desktop).

It's still copyrighted.  That said however in practice given what this 
item is, it's unlikely that anyone would get in any trouble.

-- 
Tom (not speaking on behalf of anything to do with the BBC!)

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