Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (1264 mails)

[Kirill Kirillov <kirill.kirillov@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi!

В Птн, 09/09/2011 в 11:59 +0200, Sascha Peilicke пишет: 
> Hello everyone,
>
> sr#81625 want's to add 'sword', a bible study tool to openSUSE:Factory. While 
> that is totally fine, the spec file %description contains stuff like:
>
> +The SWORD Project is an effort to create an ever expanding software package 
> for
> +research and study of God and His Word.
>
> While I don't care much for that particular bedtime story, others may well be 
> offended by biased religious views (even more so if their's differing). Of 
> course, this may equally apply to policitcal views or offensive words.
>
> I have the feeling that openSUSE should take neutral stance, be inviting and 
> open for everyone (and we're quite good at that already). But I'm not sure if 
> we should provide a stage for non-technical biased views. Even less so for 
> those with a mission. Thus, the question I'd like to ask is whether we should 
> allow such formulations or not. Do we already have policy for that or do we 
> care at all?

First of all, this description is from the sword.spec.in file, which one
can find in the upstream archive [1]. Exactly the same description is
used at least by Mandriva [2].

I will update the description if my submit request is rejected, it is
not a problem.

In my opinion, the real problem is to name God's word as a bedtime
story. I hope that the author of this disrespectful saying is smart
enough to apologise for it.

[1]
http://www.crosswire.org/ftpmirror/pub/sword/source/v1.6/sword-1.6.2.tar.gz
[2]
http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/packages/cooker/sword/current/SPECS/sword.spec?revision=686324&view=markup

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Kirill Kirillov
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