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Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material



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On 13 Mar 2002, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:

>Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> writes:
>
>> Changing some working simply because you are offended by it is just
>> plain wrong. You are making a decision based solely on your own personal
>> criteria, rather than that of sound technical advice.
>
>I think a Debian developer has a perfectly legitimate right to do
>this.  I'm certainly *not* saying he ought to in any particular case.
>
>There is no rule *anywhere* in Debian that one has some kind of
>obligation to give upstream authors an unlimited soapbox.  Indeed, if
>an upstream author insisted on one, we would regard that as a
>requirement thoroughly incompatible with the DFSG.

Isn't this exactly the obligation you impose when you allow that invariant 
sections from the GFDL are DFSG-free?  The classic invariant section is 
literally RMS's soapbox in the EMACS documentation...

>Thomas
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