To save people wasting time on this Debian is a volunteer effort
Each DD can contribute what they want On the inclusion of packages like this, I suspect some DDs would find the only thing left to contribute is their resignations. Many people wouldn't want to touch this with a ten foot pole. The consequences of even showing sympathy for this type of package could well have personal consequences for some people well into the future, here is a typical example: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-26502420 On 11/03/14 21:56, Sam Kuper wrote: > On 11/03/2014, Thibaut Paumard <thib...@debian.org> wrote: >> Le 11/03/2014 20:10, Sam Kuper a écrit : >>> My point was that if legal (in some jurisdictions) and literary >>> discussions of abuse are completely excluded from Debian, then an act >>> of censorship has been performed, which may itself be viewed as a real >>> - though different - harm. >> >> No. > > Yes. > >> Deciding to not include a copy of some "literary discussion" in a >> GNU/Linux distribution is by no means censorship. Please keep in mind >> what the Debian project is about. > > About this, I agree with you. > > That's because there's a big difference between: > > (A) 'Deciding to not include a copy of some "literary discussion" in a > GNU/Linux distribution' (this can be fair enough, as I said earlier); > and > > (b) deciding 'legal and literary discussions of abuse are completely > excluded from Debian' (which would prevent Debian from ever > distributing some valued works of the Western cultural canon, not on > the basis of their being software or not, but on the basis of their > literary content - a form of censorship). > > Like you, I'm in favour (A), applied sensibly; and I'm not in favour of (B). > > I responded to Joseph Neal's earlier email to the list because he's > apparently of the opposite opinion: in favour of (B) or something like > it; and by implication possibly opposed to (A). > > Regards, > > Sam > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-women-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/531f7a8b.5000...@pocock.com.au
