[Python-Dev] audiotest.au and possible copyright issues?

[Mihai Ibanescu]

On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 03:35:49PM +0100, Michael Sparks wrote:
> On Thursday 21 Oct 2004 15:29, Mihai Ibanescu wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Here's an interesting bug:
> >
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=136654
> 
> Hi Mihai,
> 
> 
> That system requires a login in order to access that bug, and after
> registering I can't access the bug ("You are not authorized..."), and I
> doubt I'm alone in this. Could you elaborate further?

Sorry folks, I am an idiot, I didn't notice the bug was marked as internal. I
opened access to it, and for the ones who don't have accounts on bugzilla:

<quote>
>From an internal list:

Are we really allowed to ship:

/usr/lib/python2.3/email/test/data/audiotest.au

Thats a clip from monthy python, and its surely copyrighted.

...

Might as well nuke it to be safe ; it's not like it's part of actual
functionality AFAICT.
</quote>


The copyright owner (if there is one) would probably not care 
about PSF that much, because PSF is not commercial. But software
vendors/packagers are probably at risk more than PSF is.

Misa