On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Simo Sorce <ssorce@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 2009-05-29 at 10:20 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: >> On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 11:05:01AM +0300, Muayyad AlSadi wrote: >> > in case you have accepted to put such packages in the repo >> > >> > please maintain a wiki page listing all of them so that we can add >> > exclude for all of them in >> > fedora .repo files >> > >> > sorry, but our users trust us [in ojuba.org spin] to provide packages >> > that respect our family values and moralities >> >> IMHO it is not Fedora's job to define family values & moralities. >> Such morals/values will vary all around the world, such that no >> single list Fedora makes would be satisfactory. If a derived spin >> wants to define a set of morals & values then the burden should be >> on them to maintain the list of packages that don't comply, not >> Fedora. > > Let's also add the morality is the prime excuse for censorship in many > countries. I can't count the amount of clearly censor-grade legislation > has passed recently in just the western hemisphere with just the > *excuse* of "defending children"* where in some cases stuff related to > children was not even named in the text of the law, or if it were it was > clearly preposterous and only there to justify the whole set of rules. > Let alone countless other moral or religious precepts. > > That said, if there are clearly identifiable class of programs that may > be deemed offensive by a large set of people (and *not* governments), > then it would be sensible to mark them so that people can consciously > and *individually* decide to (not) install/remove them or use spins that > explicitly exclude/include them. > > Simo. > > > > * Of course I am all for defending children, but totally against using a > highly sensible topic to shove in legislation that has nothing to do > with protection them and all to do with censorship and control. +1 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
