On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 08:31:43 -0600, John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 01:32:26AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 19:03:59 -0600, John Goerzen
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>>
>> > You are quite right. We cannot fight all battles for everyone.
>>
>> > Let's make an operating system.
>>
>> And stop trying to censor data and make sure our users are only
>> exposed to RightThink. We should stop being the morL guardians of
>> the free world, and let licenses, and what is legal to distribute,
>> govern what goes in Debian.
> And there you go with the red herring.
It is not a red herring. It is all subjective -- is it legal?
or not? Is it porn? or not? Is it art? or not? Is it useful? or not?
Personal taste and opinions are leading the charge against
this package.
> Nobody is suggesting censorship. Debian has made decisions about
> what we include and exclude in our OS for years.
Right. And the decision has been made by developers choosing to
spend their time packaging stuff they want included. No one orders
people to package things. And so far, despite purity, despite
offensive fortunes, despite sex.6,
> Would you suggest we are censoring because we don't include all of
> Project Gutenberg in main? Or because we don't include every GPL'd
> package on Freshmeat?
Has someone tried to package that, and been told not to? Based
on content, or technical issues like archive space requirements?
manoj
--
A stitch in time saves nine.
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/>
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