[Python-modules-team] Bug#709138: Bug report contains non-free content and cannot be processed

[Paul Tagliamonte]

On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 12:15:33PM -0700, Clint Byrum wrote:
> I am not a laywer, but this is my opinion. Under most definitions of
> copyright, a bug report's copyright belongs to its author. We host
> them in the BTS at their request, so I don't believe we need any
> further license. However if a poster asked to have their material
> removed, I think we'd be obligated to remove it.

Not unlike how GitHub will host things that are non-free, so long as
they can redistribute it.

I think that's jwilk's point.

In fact, I'd argue CC-BY-NC 3.0 is *more* permissive then most text. In
fact, if someone "remixed" my text, I'm not sure how I'd feel about it.

Cheers,
  Paul

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