Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material
"Lex Spoon" <lex@cc.gatech.edu> writes:
> Well I'm glad we had this discussion. I'm clearly outnumbered, but I
> don't know why. I never said anything about *upstream* demanding
> anything of us. I'm just wondering what we should demand of ourselves.
> This is as technical an issue as demanding DFSG compliance, and it seems
> moderately important to me: authorship is important in for open source.
I think developers should have the freedom to do what they think best.
In your zeal to say "we should have no policy against offensive
speech"--which I would support, since it upholds the freedom of the
individual developer, you have gone to the opposite extreme "a
developer should package whatever `upstream' gives him"--which
operates as just as severe a restriction on the developer.
I trust Debian developers to do the right thing, and don't think they
need compulsion one way or the other.
Thomas
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