Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (1264 mails)

[Stefan Seyfried <stefan.seyfried@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Am Sat, 10 Sep 2011 19:56:34 +0100
schrieb Nelson Marques <nmo.marques@xxxxxxxxx>:

> > What do you mean?
>
> I'm not sure if this is the answer you are looking for... but... as I
> see it... a project/community like openSUSE is meant to be a
> pluri-cultural community, this means we have people from all believes
> and races tagging along for something we all believe, free open source
> software...
>
> While it is legit to have such a rule to prevent openSUSE to be
> associated with 'religion' or 'politics' as an organization and
> community, which I totally subscribe, the place for such a rule would
> be in trademarks, logo's, official communication, forums and
> netiquette.
>
> I don't think such statement should be in the packaging guidelines...
> lets be honest... can anyone ensure to me that packages like 'fortune'
> don't have any quotations with religious or political origins? Has
> someone ever pulled out the ban hammer on them? Why this one in
> particular?

"fortune" was actually censored by SuSE packagers in the past, because
it contained some questionable quotes (Hitler? I'm not sure).
I have not checked if this is still the case.

And totally innocent screensavers (jwz's world famous webcollage) is
censored from the xscreensaver package, even though all it does is
download random pictures from the internet and display them...

So censorship is buried deep in the openSUSE packages ;-P

JFTR: I think all packages that are properly maintained and legal should
      be available in the distribution. Nobody forces anyone to install
      them. Even atheists might find the bible research software useful to
      find arguments against certain beliefs ;-)

Best regards,

        Stefan
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Stefan Seyfried

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