Re: CoC policy for package contents (was: Re: Can the community team remove packages or kick me out for not removing packages?)

[Salvo Tomaselli <tiposchi@tiscali.it>]

Hello,

I think there should be an entirely new and different policy to what
to accept and not accept in debian. Code is mostly not written in
debian and most projects adopt different code of conducts, so there
will inevitably be a lot of mismatches if we just apply the code of
conduct to all the code we have.

Also, data doesn't have a conduct, so there's that…

I think that before starting to draft voting options, it would be
better to have an informal poll to see where people stand on various
issues.

For example:

Are religious texts exempt? I think they should not be because next
thing that will happen is that a few people will come up and say mein
kampf is a religious text for them, but it seems clear that some
people believe religious texts are exempt. In that case we should also
define what a religion is and isn't.

Are sufficiently old things allowed? Every single greek person who
wrote anything, most likely would be in jail nowadays, but their
conduct was in most cases accepted in their own culture. Does this
only apply to sufficiently old things or also modern?

In general I think that things everybody agrees on who are not
uncomfortable to anyone are not worth saying, so if that's the goal we
should be purging anything that isn't software, and possibly most
games.

There's probably much more to this but I had planned to think about it
for longer before starting a thread, but you were quicker :)

Best
-- 
Salvo Tomaselli

I difensori della morale tradizionale sono raramente persone di cuore. Si è
tentati di pensare che essi si servano della morale come di legittimo sfogo
al loro desiderio di fare del male agli altri.
               -- Bertrand Russell, Perché non sono cristiano. 1957