On Thursday, July 2, 2026 1:26:53 AM Mountain Standard Time Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote:
> We've had this discussion on this list a countless time before. You cannot be > "not political". And on the flip side, FOSS by itself is *very* political. By > contributing to FOSS you make a political statement about how you believe we > should work together to create something for the benefit of everybody. That is > political. And I have made the following statement many times on this discussion before, but it bears repeating *because the future of Debian depends on us getting this right*. Debian is full of members who hold a wide range of political and religious views. Every Debian contributor holds at least one view that another contributor strongly disagrees with. If we allow Debian contributors to vent their personal opinions as part of the project, eventually everyone will be offended and the project will split apart. To the specific issue of wars, we are entering an era where more and more Debian contributors will live in countries that are at war with each other. Debian *cannot* be the place where those wars are litigated. Debian contributors may engage in those discussions in other venues, but this is not the place for them. -- Soren Stoutner [email protected]
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