Am 09.09.2011 13:06, schrieb Sascha Peilicke:
On Friday 09 September 2011 12:54:23 Graham Anderson wrote:
On Friday 09 Sep 2011 12:29:32 Lars Müller wrote:
Maybe best if one of our English native speakers commnets on this.
I'm an atheist and native English speaker, so I'll chip in on this. Here is the full text of the %description from the Sword package, none of which offends me in the slightest. Why would it?;)
The SWORD Project is an effort to create an ever expanding software package for research and study of God and His Word.
The SWORD Bible Framework allows easy manipulation of Bible texts, commentaries, lexicons, dictionaries, etc. Many frontends are build using this framework. An installed module set may be shared between any frontend using the framework.
This is really fairly innocuous text, there is no proselytising or preaching, it's simple an accurate (so far as I can tell) description of what the package is for/does. I find the name of the software project "Sword" mildly amusing but that's neither here nor there, and is just a personal frivolity. As I said, I'm also atheist but not offended in the slighest way by the description or the package name. However, I was just thinking that this may be an issue for some, thus the question.
I, as an agnostic, would suggest the following: A software to study the bible, the main collection of books in the Christian faith. I see no problem in accepting it, *if* we make clear, that´s _only_ the Christian POV and that other religions are invented to submit their software as well (maybe a program to study the Tora or something else.) So my plan for this: - make clear it´s only Christian (maybe you should talk to the maintainer(s) first and explain them your concerns. I´m sure you´ll find a way.) - move it to education - finish! ;-) The only thing we have to do is, to avoid any kind of "holy war". I think we all don´t want to get into such flames about "my god is better then your god and my church is more holy then yours". Kim -- -o) Kim Leyendecker /\\ openSUSE Ambassador, openSUSE Wiki Team DE _\_v http://www.opensuse.org - Linux for open minds -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org