To begin with, why has there been a request to include this piece of software in FACTORY?
It's pretty much an open process ([1]) and anyone can do it. [1] - http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:How_to_contribute_to_Factory
If this organisation is writing some software to push their religious beliefs then they should do so directly through their own efforts and not request to have it included as part of a Linux distribution: create a 1-click installation process for this software and if people who want to use it then they install it directly from that site.
We should be careful dude, and since we're looking at it, we should also warn the people on Fedora[2], Debian[3], Ubuntu[4], etc about this new world domination conspiracy. We must not fall! [2] - http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=3896 [3] - http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=sword&searchon=names&suite=all§ion=all [4] - https://launchpad.net/sword Now the big question is... what madness will take over people when someone submits gnomesword (a GNOME frontend for sword) ? The world lost man...
There is already some tearing of the hair and gnashing of the teeth in trying to keep the size of what is to be put onto the Live CDs and/or the DVDs and now someone wants to add some religious program to Factory - after which it will flow on to the installation media which is already overcrowded.
I think no one wants this package in the default patterns and media, and it's totally understandable because openSUSE isn't a Theological organization. I don't believe the license is offending. I mean, if you look into Koji, Launchpad, etc... Why would it be so strange to be in oS:Factory or that we even got a request for a package that lives for ages in other distro's ?
Which other distros have had the same request foisted on them and what have been their responses?
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