Re: Does FPC have any policy about packaging when the upstream have chosen a deliberately offensive name for their application/library?

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On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 6:22 PM, Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>> "AM" == Anne Mulhern <amulhern@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> AM> The question assumes that the upstream had deliberately chosen the
> AM> name for this meaning, that it wasn't an accidental match, as in
> AM> debugger or manuscript.
>
> If you have an upstream which does such a thing, what are the chances
> that the software they're producing is actually useful?  If it's useful,
> it should stand on its merits and not the name.  And if it's just crap,
> then there probably isn't much point in adding it to the distribution.
> I would assume that any such software would tend towards the 'crap' end
> of the spectrum, but it's an infinite universe....

The  word "git" actually has a pretty rude standard meaning.
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