Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activitymonitor
On Sun, 05 Dec 2004 20:50:25 -0600, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> said:
> On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 15:07 +0000, Andrew Suffield wrote:
>> On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 08:45:56AM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote:
>> > On 05-Dec-04, 04:55 (CST), James Foster <jamesfoster@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > There's no excuse for censorship, ever.
>> > >
>> >
>> > Okay everybody, repeat after me: Choosing not to distribute a
>> > given package is NOT censorship.
>>
>> And telling somebody else that they can't distribute a given
>> package IS censorship.
>>
>> You evidently have chosen not to do it. That's not
>> censorship. You're presumably also trying to tell somebody else not
>> to do it. That's censorship.
> Then the DFSG is censorship, and newspaper editors are censors.
> Be real, man. Steve Greenland said it perfectly: "Choosing not to
> distribute a given package is NOT censorship. ... This is not a
> subtle difference."
You choose not to put such a thing in Debian, your choice. You
tell me that something I have worked upon, is legal, and free, and my
work can't be put into debian because of your narrow morality, then
it is indeed censorship.
manoj
--
What kind of sordid business are you on now? I mean, man, whither
goest thou? Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the
night? -- Jack Kerouac
Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/>
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