| Ron Johnson 2004-12-01, 4:28 am |
| On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 12:30 +0100, Cesar Martinez Izquierdo wrote:
> El Miércoles 01 Diciembre 2004 04:22, Simon Law escribió:
>
> I meant: when some external people is expressing some legal concerns to Debian
> in this subject. Like the software patents situations. ASAP, we don't remove
> patented sofware if we don't know that there will be problems with that
> patent.
>
> I think the point here is that some developers have some moral concerns with
> this program, and they are trying to find some legal arguments to avoid this
> program entering in Debian.
*No*, that's *not* true. The thought (well mine, at least) is,
"not in main, not on Disk 1".
> And this is bad. Debian have tons of programs, and you don't need to install
> all of them, nor all of them are intended to be useful for you, nor all of
> them have to be fitting your moral.
>
> IMHO, we really can't exclude all the programs that *MAY BE* illegal in some
> country. We should only exclude when there is an actual legal threaten.
> Otherwise, I'm quite sure I can find a country where each package is not
> legal, and I can start to send concerns to Debian legal, and in some months
> we can stop packaging Debian...
If Disk 1 has hot-babe on it, I couldn't give it to Dick or Jane
the 13 year old neighborhood geeks. "Contributing to the delinquency
of a minor".
If foreigner gives Disk 1 (that has the Bible on it) to a Saudi
Arabian, that's evangelism.
Let them do "# apt-get install hot-babe bible-kjv" and all will
be well.
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Is "common sense" really valid? For example, is it "common
sense" to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks,
and that those with brown skins are mud people?
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