Quoting Steve Langasek (2022-04-05 22:36:02) > On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 02:39:31PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > Quoting Julian Andres Klode (2022-03-31 12:31:18) > > > Under 4.1.5 of the Constitution, the developers by way of GR are > > > the body who has the power to issue nontechnical statements. > > > > This is a proposal for Debian to issue a statement on an issue of > > > the day as given as an example, the recent invasion of Ukraine. > > > > ==== Text of GR ==== > > > > The Debian project issues the following statement: > > > > The Debian project strongly condemns the invasion of Ukraine by > > > Russia. The Debian projects affirms that Ukrain is a souvereign > > > nation which includes the Donbas regions of Luhansk, as well as > > > Crimea, which has already been illegaly annexed by Russia. > > > No we don't - we care about our users, and our users include those > > who do evil. > > I think this thread has largely petered out, with many people having > laid out the reasons why Debian taking a public position on this is > not necessarily a good idea. > > But I don't think it should go unadddressed that it's quite a bizarre > twist to go from "our priorities are our users and Free Software" to > "we care about evil users". Please note the word "include" in my sentence above. Point is we do *not* care about our users doing evil. Which is same as we care *equally* about users doing good and users doing bad: It is not for us to judge our users' deeds. Debian rejects software licensed with the following clause: "The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil" > That is far different from "people who are doing evil are using > Debian, and therefore we should support them". Why do you write "therefore"? I talk about supporting our users _regardless_ of doing good or evil. [ further distortion snipped ] Please don't twist my words! - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: signature