Re: anarchism_7.7-1.deb
On 09/24/99 at 21:29:04, Siggy Brentrup wrote concerning "Re: anarchism_7.7-1.deb":
> Tomasz Wegrzanowski <maniek@beeer.com> writes:
> In my understanding the bible packages belong into contrib *at
> best*, since it's value to the public is at least questionable if not
> offensive to muslims, buddhists(no not to them), hindus ...
>
> As an alternative I might decide to get at a digital version of Karl
> Marx's "Das Kapital" or Mao's "Little Red Book" and package it for
> debian just for fun. Either have to go into non-us I presume :)
FWIW, from a theological/philosophical/ethical perspective, I'd just
as soon have anything in the distribution that a developer wants to
package. Assuming there's room for it, of course. Just because a
package exists doesn't mean I must install it. And if I wanted to
read Marx, Mau, the Vedas, the Koran, the Book of Mormon, and the
Bible, each would speak for itself as to its own intrinsic value and
message; after all, that's why they exist in the first place.
BTW, it's unfortunate that so many such electronic texts, alternate
Bible versions in particular (IMO), are non-free. I've written a
set of Perl scripts/databases for the use of several more modern Bible
translations, but the copyrights on the Bible versions they use would make
them non-free or contrib at best. :-(
However, I'd support an effort to collect a distinct set of dfsg-free
"literature" packages that are available download-only to save space
on CD's.
Jesse
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