My question post-supposes that they had indicated that the racist meaning was certainly intended by them/why they chose the name. I'm greatly in favor of giving people the benefit of the doubt...but not when there isn't any. - mulhern ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Stephen Gallagher" <sgallagh@xxxxxxxxxx> > To: packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2016 10:08:49 AM > Subject: [Fedora-packaging] Re: Does FPC have any policy about packaging when the upstream have chosen a deliberately > offensive name for their application/library? > > On 06/09/2016 04:34 PM, Anne Mulhern wrote: > > I get nothing for > > > >> dnf search retard faggot beaner nigger cunt > > > > though. > > > > I get plenty for > > > >> dnf search anus bugger > > > > but those all look quite accidental. > > > > Notice that all instances of fuck that show up are at least somewhat > > appropriate to the > > app or library, and have little to do with the core obscene meaning of the > > word. > > "fuck" in "brainfuck", means "to mess with", "thefuck" is probably short > > for > > "what the fuck" (a pretty random exclamation that one might make after > > mistyping > > something), and "fuck it" means > > "just forget about it, ignore it". They are all fairly denatured, and > > descriptive > > of the purpose of the library. > > > > "Sexy" is even more denatured than these uses of "fuck". Someone recently > > told me > > that a clothes washer was probably the least sexy household appliance I'ld > > ever buy, and I'm pretty sure they just meant "appealing" or "exciting" or > > something like that, i.e., they did _not_ really mean "sexually attractive" > > or anything else to do with sex. It's a pretty common usage, these days. > > > > So, just to make certain, the fact that a library was called, e.g., > > libeaner, would not be an objection > > If I were to see a package called libeaner, my assumption as a C coder would > be > to assume that it was like libiberty: named that way because when passed to > GCC > it would become "-leaner" (like libiberty becomes "-liberty"). If it carried > a > racial connotation, I'd probably give them the benefit of the doubt that it > was > unintentional. > > > -- > packaging mailing list > packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- packaging mailing list packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
