Re: Anarchism package
Aaron Lehmann wrote:
Please, please do
not
wrap your lines like this.
It's the great mozilla. I'm not sure what it's doing :)
$ apt-cache search bible
bible-kjv-text - King James Version of the Bible - text and
concordance
dict-easton - Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
dictd - Dictionary Server
bible-kjv - King James Version of the Bible: user interface program.
perspic-texts - Some pre-indexed texts for perspic
verse - Daily Devotional Verse from KJV Bible
dict-hitchcock - Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
Yep, debian already has the bible and dictionaries.
But please consider the following situtations, and tell me if there's
anything different from the situation with bible or anarchism
* Let's say some other turkish developer is a very good muslim, and he
wants to make quran into a debian package. it would have go into
non-free ;) (this is a religious joke if you know the specifics of
quran, it can't be modified) but still it could become a package since
it's pretty much like the bible, right?
* then let's say I'm entering the scene, and I'm packaging a free book
on satanism. And I'm putting it in debian. This should be eligible too
since that's just another religious document.
* Then, someone else comes in and receives some messages from god, and
wants to start up his own religion. Becomes a debian developer and
publishes his work as free software.
* Then, there's the ethnic group in some eastern european country, and
they do think that they're the pure and superior race, and that they
have the right to do ethnical cleansing, and they've written a political
document licensed under a free documentation license. One of these guys
is in debian and makes that a package.
So what?? I don't think that developers must have the final verdict on
what is useful for users in at least such cases. For free software, it's
*different*. Debian just can't afford supporting *free speech* and it
isn't one of the goals of the project. It definitely isn't.
My resolution: remove all this mumbo jumbo from debian (bible, quran,
anarchism, .*ism) etc. And keep the really useful ones like the dictionary.
I'm hoping that nobody will question why dictionary is unlike bible.
Dictionary consists merely of facts, while those other things (which I
referred to as mumbo jumbo) aren't.
BTW, this is *not* flamebait. Don't think it its. I'm an atheist (but
that's in fact the wrong term to describe my view on religion), but I
think a document on atheism would be mumbo jumbo, too.
Either you have to allow all sorts of documents, (for instance there's
an interactive short story, what is it? fiction or software? ;) or you
need some general guidelines on what documents are eligible for inclusion.
Putting them in another section wouldn't be a solution, they should be
made into a separate distribution (like contrib, non-free, non-us)
Thanks!!
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exa
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