[Fedora-legal-list] Required consent for mining Bugzilla data?

[Michel Alexandre Salim]

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On 03/31/2011 02:11 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 10:49:36 +0200,
>   Michel Alexandre Salim <salimma at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>>
>> I'll propose that all identities be anonymized; not sure if the
>> components and projects need to be anonymized as well. Is there anyone
>> specific I need to get in touch with?
> 
> That doesn't really work in practice. Please don't make promises you can't
> keep. If you just want the public bugs (which covers almost all of the
> Fedora ones), it might not be necessary to do that anyway.
Well, to clarify, we will not mention names. Given that the bug database
is publicly available, it is be possible to de-anonymize the names if
one takes the effort to, but it I'll try and make sure that such
information will not be in any dataset we release.

That's actually a good point, thanks for pointing it out.

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Michel Alexandre Salim

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