User:SOTO/Forum Archive/Inclusion debates/@comment-4028641-20170222073756/@comment-1350697-20170223145759

I don't really have anything to add to the validity debate -- except the opinion that I don't think it should be considered valid -- but, and I can't find the quote right now, I'm 99% sure they are licensed, and there was no legal issue re: calling them Daleks; calling them "British robots" was part of a gag where a character deliberately gets other names wrong, too.