On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 6:59 AM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
The reasoning is that having the data be free content is not enough - the systems you need to use the data need to be free software as well.
Strictly speaking though, the bug tracking software for Mediawiki isn't actually part of the chain of systems responsible for running Wikipedia. As far as I know no one has ever tried to duplicate Mediawiki's bugzilla or even wanted to. So, if one was going to make an exception, then this seems like an area that could be considered, but I don't know of any really strong arguments for why closed source would be necessary in this case.
-Robert Rohde