On Friday 09 September 2011 13:57:44 Graham Anderson wrote:
On Friday 09 Sep 2011 13:06:06 Sascha Peilicke wrote:
Even if you may not see that in the sword package, it doesn't hurt to clarify the general picture IMO. As Ciarran posted, Fedora seems to forbid religious text, I believe Ubuntu does so too (therefore the Christian edition), so there is an issue to discuss here.
I see your point :)
Do you know if Fedora/Ubuntu go into detail about what/why they don't allow in their packaging guidelines? I'd probably be quite interested in their reasoning though I'm not sure I would necessarily agree with their decision; I have strong view points (against) religion but on balance I probably feel much stronger about freedom of expression. So do I, again, I'm totally fine with the package, I only wanted to know if someone would feel offended or if we should care for wording. Seems like most of us don't mind.
However, I agree with your point that "open" shouldn't mean "anything goes". Have we had issues before with overtly provocative packages? If so, how were they dealt with? As far as I know, license where much more controversial so far than people's views ;-)
I think the guiding principles offer sound coverage of the aspects I mentioned of being open and welcoming in diversity, but is there any formal language that states a position on what *shouldn't* be tolerated?
-- Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Sascha Peilicke