* Dominik George <naturesha...@debian.org> [230818 17:52]: > Debian is not ..., it is an operating system.
This is simply and blatantly incorrect. Debian is a distribution. It includes an operating system and many, many application packages that different people find useful or interesting. The vast majority of packages are not part of the OS. The vast majority of users will only be interested in a small portion of the applications. I would go as far as saying that the applications are the most important part of the distribution, and that the OS is included as a necessity so that the applications can be run. I will certainly agree that the OS can, itself, be considered an application, useful for doing things independently of other packaged applications. As others have said, the CoC is specifically intended to be applied to communications and interactions within the Debian community, not the content of the distribution. The only document that I can think of that describes what is appropriate content for the distribution is the DFSG. Other than paragraph 2, which states that the program must include its source code, the DFSG talks entirely about the license. However, if we extrapolate paragraphs 5 and 6 of the DFSG, which talk about discrimination against persons, groups, and fields of endeavor, along with the Diversity Statement, to how we decide what packages are allowed, I think it is clear that we should be very accepting of packages with content that we don't agree with, as long as someone finds it useful or interesting enough to go to the effort of packaging it. Not doing so is equivalent to saying, "We accept you but not your contribution." The whole point of the Diversity Statement is that we accept people into the Debian community who have ideas and values that are different than, and even contradictory to, our own. How can we not accept the packages that they would like to include? The point is to make them available to those who want to use them; we are not forcing anyone who does not want to use them to do so. ...Marvin
