On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 07:18:58PM +0100, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote: > It is impossible for Debian to cater to all different ideas of what's > acceptable and what's not (prOn-lovers is just as valid a group as > prOn-haters). For that reason alone it's rather pointless for Debian > _as_a_whole_ to enforce any kind of policy (beyond 'it must be Free'), > > What we _should_ do is make it easy for any group/person to exclude on CD's/ > mirrors/installations whatever they find offensive/unacceptable. At the > moment is perfectly possible to exclude whatever you find offensive from > you own installation, what appears to be lacking is an easy way to exclude > those packages from a CD/Mirror (maybe something like an 'exlude everything > with a certain debtag' option for the CD/mirrorring scripts) > > Any group of Debian users that cares enough about an issue (whether prOn, > religion, politics, vi-usage, ...) can then make their own set of metadata > to distinguish things acceptable from things unacceptable. It is not (and > should not be) Debian's job to cater to their sensitivities. > -- > Cheers, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) >
My opinion is that if master or non-us can't distribute it and we find any interested mirror which can and would distribute it, then Debian should make it possible. Perhaps, being more worldwide aware would be a very good thing for Debian. Since there's only non-us, we should conclude that Debian is very US-concerned. As someone has pointed out, having 10 lawyers for each developer is not wanted. But since someone can point it out that there are issues distributing any software, we should search for a mirror where we could be located and try to get people to be concerned about those packages. My half cent. Regards, Thadeu Cascardo.
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