Am 24.01.22 um 02:51 schrieb Simon Lees:
IMHO, no. Well in that case we need to drastically rewrite our policy on what an acceptable package is. At the moment its along the lines of Legal thinks its ok, it would be useful for atleast some part of the community and someone is willing to maintain it. Beyond that we have very few restrictions so adding rules against a certain category of application would be a massive change for the project.
IMO there is a difference between "we don't want it" and "we forbid it". Someone in the community obviously wants it and did some decision in the past that makes the bitcoin application useful for them. Just as others discussed I personally find this problematic (both from an economical and financial stand point), but I also find using FORTRAN problematic, so I'm not willing to take sides when it comes to a policy. Packaging policies really aren't the place of political statements. We even ship nmap (which is problematic enough from a open source license point of view) and if you've seen "The Matrix" you know it's more dangerous than bitcoin in destroying the world we live in ;-) Greetings, Stephan