Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activity monitor
On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 18:17, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 01:06 +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 01:58:45PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 20:26 +0100, Eric Lavarde wrote:
> > > > Hi again,
> > > >
> > > > perhaps to bring down the conversation to something more constructive, I
> > > > think we should base decision to have something or not in Debian:
> > > > 1. _NOT_ on personal belief (else we would probably end with nothing).
> > > > 2. _NOT_ on local laws (same comment).
> > >
> > > But we should be able to pass out Debian disks to children without
> > > fear of newspaper stories like "A young girl yesterday found
> > > pictures of naked women of a Linux computer disk" and be able to
> > > pass them around in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Iran, etc without threat
> > > of the passer and the passee being beaten or thrown in jail by
> > > the Morality Police.
> >
> > Uh. If you live in a country where you could be thrown in jail because
> > someone gave you a CD-ROM containing almost 650MB worth of software of
> > which less than half a meg contains nudity cartoons, I think you have a
> > bigger problem than said nudity.
>
> That's beyond the scope of this discussion.
>
> However, I'd be *highly* agitated if someone gave my daughter a
> CD-ROM with *any* nudy cartoons.
That's also beyond the scope of this discussion. which should be
entirely about the legal risks and obligations (if any) Debian
undertakes when it begins distributing material that may be deemed
pornography.
--
Joe Wreschnig <piman@debian.org>
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