"Christoph Anton Mitterer" <cales...@scientia.net> wrote:
>Hey.... > >Well I guess that it's much easier to judge what's evil and what's not. > >Typically all peoples that took part in the Enlightenment a scientific >development came to similar rules, which you can find things like: >- Universal Declaration of Human Rights >- European Convention on Human Rights >- as well as the human rights found in the constitutions of many western >countries (as well as some others). > >It may sound arrogant, but what ever contradicts such rules or tries to >abolish them is evil. > > >But I guess this discussion leads to nothing.... so back to this special >case... > > > > >I'm not against religious software in Debian per se, but as with many >other things that we do not accept (see Debian Multimedia) or patented >stuff, it's always a big danger. > >Why don't we then include legally questionable packages like aacskeys or >dumphd in Debian? Their license should be fine, and there are surely >some countries around the world in which they're legal. > >It's always the question where to make the cut. Someone mentioned >pornography as an example. I guess we allow this because it's legal in >most countries. What would we do with a package "child-pornography" in >Debian if the license is GPL? > >Many people feel discriminated even by seeing or living with religious >people (e.g. in Germany and Europe there is the long standing issue of >having the christian cross in schools). Would we e.g. accept it if all >the Desktop wallpaper packages contain the star of david? >Guess that the countries of some that argued here that Debian is for >all, would be the first that completely forbid Debian... > >I think that computing itself an in the end also Debian originates from >and grounds on top of the ideas of what I noted above: Enlightenment, >natural sciences, et cetera. >And all this is not (or should not be) under law of any god, or the >pope, or Sharia or whatever. > >If something obviously fights those idea, it looses (IMHO) the right to >take. >Which leads me to close the circle and come to and end: >If license is clearly against all in what we all (hopefully) believe, >even if it's just the preamble or an upstream who seems to have the >impression that we should bow to some other "rules"... then personally >I'd prefer to close the doors. > >Ah and again, this is definitely not anti-Islamism... if I'd see similar >things from other religions or creationism or e.g. Nazis,... I'd say the >same. > No. It is ignorant anti-religious bigotry. Please take your prejudices elsewhere, they are quite unrelated to Debian development. Scott K Scott K -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50f67b54-8072-44e6-bcf8-b01f0016c...@email.android.com
