Re: not a first amendment question
On Sat, Nov 29, 1997 at 05:16:36PM -0700, Erik Andersen wrote:
>
> On Sun, 30 Nov 1997, Herbert Xu wrote:
>
> > bruce@va.debian.org wrote:
> > >
> > > I think we can safely draw the line somewhere before sex with animals and
> > > incest.
> >
> > I am happy with this as long as you get rid of kjv-bible.
>
> Although, personally, I am a religous person, I tend to agree here. The
> Bible _does_ include reference to sex with animals (in the contect of
> putting to death those caught doing do) and does mention incidences
> of incent. If we are going to exclude things, lets be consistent.
>
> For me though, this is not the reason Debian shouldn't include the Bible.
> We shouldn't include it because it is outside the scope of Debian, and
> solidly in the scope of Project Gutenburg. If we include the Bible (kjv)
> then are we going to include the Qur'aan, Torah, Talmud, Bhagawad-Gita,
> and Book of Mormon too?
Speaking purely from a technical standpoint, I'm happy to see bible-kjv left in, since the package itself provides a way of reading the bible interractively online,
This is something that Gutenberg doesn't provide.
As far as I'm concerned, if the proponents of other religions wish to write a similar driver,
they are welcome to have their favored texts included too.
On the subject of purity. I also believe the driver behind purity provides a useful tool,
that is, one that can be used to automate and score a series of yes no questions.
However, since it seems that the content of several of the tests s generally displeasing to a greater proportion of the developers,
I am willing to make another release with only the tests that could be considered non-offensve to all, and a note
in the README file which tells of where the other tests can be had from.
This way, we can still provide the driver but without any offensve material.
Would this be acceptable to the developers? or would you all prefer it be dropped altogether?
There are a number of tests included with purity (which noone seems to have noticed) which do contain non-offensve material,
e.g the nerd purity test and the hacker purity test.
It is trivially easy to omit the tests of a sexual nature.
Thoughts?
Aaron
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