On Sun, 5 Dec 2004 12:21:04 -0600, Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On 05-Dec-04, 09:07 (CST), Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 08:45:56AM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote: >> > On 05-Dec-04, 04:55 (CST), James Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > > >> > > There's no excuse for censorship, ever. >> > > >> > >> > Okay everybody, repeat after me: Choosing not to distribute a >> > given package is NOT censorship. >> >> And telling somebody else that they can't distribute a given >> package IS censorship. > I haven't told anyone that they can't distribute it. We, Debian, can > choose not to distribute certain materials w/o it being censorship. We do not as a project decide to include or not include packages. The people who do the work decide what they work on. No one decided we should or should not have slat in the project. If I package a package, you do not have a right to tell me it shall not be included just because you do not like it. Either prove it is illegal, or it goes in. > My local library does not buy and circulate every single book that > comes on the market. That's not censorship. They have limited > resources, and thus must make choices. The resources such a small package usees are the maintianers time -- and one that has been provided, rejecting a donated book because of the content would be censorship. manoj -- "Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats." -- Howard Aiken Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/> 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C