On Fri, 9 Sep 2011, Sascha Peilicke wrote:
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?
Well, not allowing 'sword' in isn't a neutral stance either ... unfortunately there is no good solution as including it in openSUSE might be viewed as promoting it while not including it might be viewed as prejudice, thus promoting the opposite. Thus, we already lost ;) I'd personally vote for taking packages based on technical criteria, not based on their political content. Somewhere it should be stated then that openSUSE does not necessarily promote packages or support their mission when included in openSUSE. Richard. -- Richard Guenther <rguenther@suse.de> SUSE / SUSE Labs SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nuernberg - AG Nuernberg - HRB 16746 GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer