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Re: "purity" package

On Sat, Nov 29, 1997 at 12:34:08AM -0800, Darren/Torin/Who Ever... wrote:
 
> It needs to move to non-free anway.  The copyright shows that it goes
> into non-free anyway:
> /usr/doc/purity/copyright:
> >This program is public domain.  Please don't charge for it.
> >If you improve it/fix it/etc, please let me know, so i can
> >keep my version up to date with everyone else's.

OK. Let's move that thing under non-free, and forget about it...

But we have opened a can of worws. What may we do with "potentially
offensive" stuff? What if someone packages a screensaver with "sexually
explicit material"? Sure, the WWW is full of that kind of "material".
People is free to download it if they want. But, should we distribute it
in our official CDs? Should we use the precious donated FTP space to hold
that stuff?

I think we should have the power to decide what goes and what doesn't go
in our distribution. It's not as simple as "don't install it!" when you
have already paid for the CDs!

And who draws the line? We as a whole do it, as we do (or want to do)
with every policy decision. What's wrong with Debian deciding "foo"
doesn't belong to Debian GNU/Linux distribution?

>   -<li>their distribution would conflict with other project policies.</ul>
>   +<li>their distribution would conflict with other project policies.<P>
>   +<li>someone, somewhere might find the contents offensive.</ul>

Not "someone, somewhere might find...". We (the Debian packages
maintainers and collaborators) decide the package "foo" has no place in
our distribution.  And if we decide vi or emacs don't have anything to do
there, let's remove them. We all are rational people here, aren't we?

	Thanks,
-- 
Enrique Zanardi					ezanardi@noah.dfis.ull.es
Dpto. Fisica Fundamental y Experimental
Univ. de La Laguna


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