On Wednesday, May 22, 2013 12:57:45 AM Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > 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 guess I misread then. I thought you were saying they only asserted the license against the .sig. > > 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. I can agree with this. > > 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. I don't know how to explain my feelings about this in a way that wouldn't be escalatory, which I don't think is needed. I agree closing the bug wasn't the best way to deal with it. Scott K _______________________________________________ Python-modules-team mailing list Python-modules-team@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/python-modules-team
