Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material
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On 13 Mar 2002, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
>Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> writes:
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>> Changing some working simply because you are offended by it is just
>> plain wrong. You are making a decision based solely on your own personal
>> criteria, rather than that of sound technical advice.
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>I think a Debian developer has a perfectly legitimate right to do
>this. I'm certainly *not* saying he ought to in any particular case.
>
>There is no rule *anywhere* in Debian that one has some kind of
>obligation to give upstream authors an unlimited soapbox. Indeed, if
>an upstream author insisted on one, we would regard that as a
>requirement thoroughly incompatible with the DFSG.
Isn't this exactly the obligation you impose when you allow that invariant
sections from the GFDL are DFSG-free? The classic invariant section is
literally RMS's soapbox in the EMACS documentation...
>Thomas
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