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Re: "purity" package

In message <8790u94gq3.fsf@garfield.complete.org>, jgoerzen@complete.org writes
:
>I am rather concerned about this package.  I don't really think that
>it has a place in an operating system distribution, especially one
>that is supposed to be professional.  It can also put CD vendors in an
>awkward position -- they may not want to distribute things like that,
>but since' it's in main, it is on our official CD.  Also it may put
>some CD vendors in a questionable legal position.

I know of someone in the UK who was under police investigation for a
while, re the obscene publications act, after selling CDROMs of an FTP
archive which, among 600 Meg of other software, contained -one- file
called 'erotica.arc'.  I don't know if the kind of questions in the
'purity' package would be illegal under the obscene publications act.
Anyone have a better knowledge of this than me?

>I think it should be pulled, or at least some of the quizzes should be
>pulled.
>
>(If you don't understand what this is all about, grab the package from
>hamm and run it...you'll see...)

Personally, I don't like censorship, but I think in this case it might
be justified in order to keep CDROM vendors in the clear.  Perhaps
/usr/lib/games/purity/{100,400,500,dabney,new100,pt100} should be
removed.  Or perhaps moved to non-free, so distributors can make their
own judgments.  (The purity program itself should stay, though; there's
no problem with that.)

OTOH, what about the fortunes package?  It has an option in the
postinst to remove 'potentially offensive' fortunes.  Could this same
method be used in the purity package?

I don't know if this kind of warning of the sysadmin and prompting
whether to remove offensive files would be sufficient to get us around
the obscene publications act (assuming it applies)...  But is there
anyone here more more knowledgable about that?

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