On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 6:59 AM, David Gerard <dgerard(a)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