Thread: email address as bugtracker link for non-small projects?
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timoph is offline timoph
2010-08-26 , 14:46
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Originally Posted by fms View Post
Well, first of all, a .deb package does not have to be open-source. There are binary-only packages as well.
I know debs don't have to contain the sources. I could have just as well referred to good practices in general like lma pointed out and was absolutely correct.

Originally Posted by fms View Post
Secondly, it is up to developer to determine a way how he is going to handle bug reports, if at all. The GPL says nothing about handling bug reports, so developers using GPL are not legally bound to do any bug report handling.
Well I did say "At the end of the day it's the developer's decision how to handle bugs."

And my final comment to this thread: GPL doesn't state many things that are considered good practices but people are doing so anyway. If some people don't want to follow good practices then it's really their own choice and loss.