User:SOTO/Forum Archive/Inclusion debates/@comment-27280472-20161218221939/@comment-5918438-20161218225036

This is what T:VALID has to say about it:
 * Any fiction, by any author, where the copyright holder hasn't given permission isn't allowed. And no, it doesn't matter that the story was written by someone who has otherwise written licensed fiction. Or that the publisher did a nice thing and gave his or her profits to charity. Or that the work was almost published by the BBC.

In this case, though, they would not require a BBC license for this charity publication, and as the publishers of the main series, at least in regards to that one short story, they themselves are the copyright holders who would validate it. It's quite unprecedented to accept a charity publication, but this one does not actually offend Rule 2.