On 09/24/99 at 21:29:04, Siggy Brentrup wrote concerning "Re: anarchism_7.7-1.deb": > Tomasz Wegrzanowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In my understanding the bible packages belong into contrib *at > best*, since it's value to the public is at least questionable if not > offensive to muslims, buddhists(no not to them), hindus ... > > As an alternative I might decide to get at a digital version of Karl > Marx's "Das Kapital" or Mao's "Little Red Book" and package it for > debian just for fun. Either have to go into non-us I presume :)
FWIW, from a theological/philosophical/ethical perspective, I'd just as soon have anything in the distribution that a developer wants to package. Assuming there's room for it, of course. Just because a package exists doesn't mean I must install it. And if I wanted to read Marx, Mau, the Vedas, the Koran, the Book of Mormon, and the Bible, each would speak for itself as to its own intrinsic value and message; after all, that's why they exist in the first place. BTW, it's unfortunate that so many such electronic texts, alternate Bible versions in particular (IMO), are non-free. I've written a set of Perl scripts/databases for the use of several more modern Bible translations, but the copyrights on the Bible versions they use would make them non-free or contrib at best. :-( However, I'd support an effort to collect a distinct set of dfsg-free "literature" packages that are available download-only to save space on CD's. Jesse -- Jesse Jacobsen, Pastor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Grace Lutheran Church (ELS) http://www.jvlnet.com/~jjacobsen/ Madison, Wisconsin GnuPG public key ID: 2E3EBF13
