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

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On 05/21/2013 10:23 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> On Tuesday, May 21, 2013 03:30:06 PM Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:

>> For clarity: the original poster of #709138 asked no such thing; the
>> poster merely asserted a CC BY-NC license in the .sig of their e-mail.
> 
> No, they said, "My quotes in this email licensed under ..." I read that as 
> anything they typed.

I don't think we're actually in disagreement on these factual matters,
so i am not sure what your "No," is about.

> I think this sort of thing is obnoxious and annoying and what I did is point 
> out behavior inconsistent with our values.  Marking the report closed does not 
> also require forgetting about the issue raised.  Love the bug, not the bug 
> report.

i'm sorry, but i think you are mistaken about the nature of the BTS.

http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#closing clearly says:

    Debian bug reports should be closed when the problem is fixed. Problems
    in packages can only be considered fixed once a package that includes
    the bug fix enters the Debian archive.

This criterion was not met.  The bug report should not have been closed.

> Yes, but ...  I think obnoxiousness in bug reports should not be ignored 
> either.

Sure, and if you had politely pointed the bug reporter to one of the
many places where reasonable people have taken apart the CC NC clause,
and explained why it might not be effective at promoting the freedoms we
all want to see expanded, that would have been a perfectly reasonable
response.

Regards,

	--dkg

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