Re: Bug#138541: ITP: debian-sanitize (was Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material)
On Mon, 18 Mar 2002 19:22, Jeff Licquia wrote:
> Right. Notice, though that one of my examples was about requesting a
> category, not banning it.
If you want to find a category then use Sourceforge or Freshmeat. Then you
get a list of all programs meeting the category without regard to whether
it's in Debian or not. If you are seriously searching for something that
meets such a category then it's likely that there'll be many things of
interest to you that aren't packaged.
> One of the advantages of this proposal over my own is that it doesn't
> necessarily have to be negative. For example, if I were curious about,
> say, Hindu religious texts, I could turn to this software and request a
> list of packages in that category and install them, or perhaps even have
> the package notify me when new software of that type is available.
Or you could subscribe to the Freshmeat daily email service to find out about
new packages, and search Freshmeat when you want to find something.
> > "Not sponsoring religion" does not imply banning anything that is related
> > to religion. Every government run university will have a huge amount of
> > religious books in their history, archaeology, and literature
> > departments.
>
> Unfortunately, that's not always true. Consider, for example, a
> workstation in an American public school, where a Jewish student notes
> the presence of "bible-kjv-text" (including the New Testament).
> Depending on the student, the school, and the attitude of the lawyers,
> that could create an embarassing incident.
You need to do a lot more research about religion and law.
My Jewish friends have never mentioned to me any dislike to the new
testament, however they all object to some minor degree to the "old
testament" as it is a truncated version of their holy book.
Also they have a big objection to blasphemy and using the word G_d in
improper ways. It is common to replace a letter in the word G_d with a '_'
character when it is used in any way other than a suitable holy book. I get
the impression that they have no objection at all to it being used in the
Bible as it's used in a respectful fashion. The use in the Linux kernel
(including in printk()'s) is something that I expect they would have some
level of disagreement to. However I have observed that my Jewish friends are
smarter than most people when it comes to dealing with people who do things
that offend them, they tend not to ask someone to stop if it'll only make
them do it again...
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