On 2025-07-22 13:26:12, Simon Richter wrote: > Hi, > > On 7/22/25 02:22, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > > I.e. we just can't afford to be the morality police, but we agree with > > > it and wish someone would do it. > > > More like, we think it's a good idea if someone did it, but it's not the > > main focus of our project and we should focus on the things that we can > > change (i.e., what gets into Debian), rather than trying to impose our > > will upon the larger (Free Software) world. > > FWIW, someone else being the morality police is going to go poorly, it is > therefore not a good idea, and we should resist it when it comes up. > > However, this should not take the form of the stupidest form of liberalism > where the more vile the speech you defend, the more of a free speech > advocate you are. > > We decide what we ship and therefore make available to a wider audience, and > this can not be distinct from our own values, or we spend a lot of time > counteracting ourselves.
Yes, but the recent messages in the thread are about how _close_ should be the package polict to our CoC. Nobody argues for opposite, but there are valid points that it should not be simply the CoC with a few words flipped. iustin
