On Sat, 2009-10-17 at 01:09 +0200, Guido Grazioli wrote: > Is GPL really a way to freely censor a developer work, as in this > case? > If it were closed source, you wouldn't had the right to do that. > > That string is more stupid than offensive; and the escalation found There are people who find profanity genuinely offensive. Dealing with it is a matter of balance; it's obviously intolerable to try and ban it entirely, but I think it's an equally bad idea to try and argue that, because _you_ find the concept of bad language being offensive absurd, it's completely okay to use it entirely gratuitously when you have a reasonable chance of offending people who disagree. In other words, as others have said, since this use of profanity is entirely gratuitous - it's not necessary or valuable in any way whatsoever - it's a perfectly reasonable choice to patch it out. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
