On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 03:13:32PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > Hi > > My packaging survey turned up a interesting suggestion > > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2009-May/msg01809.html > > We don't currently have any guidelines covering this but considering the > Debian action to hot babe > > http://lwn.net/Articles/113644/ > > I wanted to asked first, is this allowed in Fedora? > It seems pretty clear-cut based on the existing guidelines and practice. The guidelines say: "code is permitted (assuming, of course, that it has an open source compatible license, is not legally questionable, etc.), only some kinds of content are permissable" which seems to imply that /all/ code is permitted provided that it's open source and not legally questionable (and there doesn't seem to be any suggestion that this fails either of those tests). Further, one of the categories of banned content other than porn is "Religious texts", but Fedora includes SWORD, which is code (but with no content) designed to handle the bible, so it would appear that packages that are intended to handle, but do not include, banned content, are OK. Besides which, there's always the possibility that someone could use the gnaughty code as a base for a downloader for different content - free software isn't limited by its original author's intentions, and shouldn't be tainted by them either. Ewan -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
