On Saturday, September 10, 2011 06:53:23 AM Basil Chupin wrote:
On 10/09/11 22:43, Kirill Kirillov wrote:
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
Oh heaven help us....which "God "are you talking about?
<Sigh...> 'You' can't even spell "Odin" correctly...... Is Odin the god you are on about?
Please tell me something - otherwise I will be sleeping restlessly and wondering: when you cross yourself during a church service do you perform the sign of the cross with thumb/first finger/second finger together and from the forehead/navel/left shoulder/right shoulder to form the cross, or using the whole hand from forehead/nave/right shoulder/left shoulder?
BC You all need to chill. Bedtime story was to refer to every religion. I'm religious and felt no burning need to be offended, so stop being childish. The creator of all things doesn't need us to defend His honor; his honor is written in the night sky.
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