-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 06:51:23PM +1100, Russell Coker wrote: > On Friday 03 December 2004 16:19, Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > 2) can not be sexist > > Bad idea. We should avoid subjective criteria. > > > 3) has to be able to be mirrored by all mirrors based on the laws of the > > location of the server > > Bad idea. Some countries have stupid laws and we should not pander to them. > There are laws against encryption and against reverse engineering (which > could get strace, ltrace, and gdb). > > > 4) can not offend someone's religion > > Even if they are of the church of emacs? > > > 5) must be able to be installed by minors > > What age is a "minor"? What things is a minor not permitted to see? That > seems more of an issue for their parents to determine rather than Debian. > > > 6) can not be off-color sexually or culturally > > Again it's a subjective criteria. > > > does it have to pass all of these, all the time? > > How about you go off and create a distribution that panders to all the silly > ideas. The rest of us will keep making Debian usable. > > A distribution with no crypto, no debugging tools, and nothing that might > possibly offend (think about "killing child processes", the "mount" command, > etc) is not going to be of much use to anyone. > Hi Russell, /I/ have no objection to the package. I was wondering if anything in policy dictates anything. Someone said 'ask the ftp masters'. Well do they follow any policy? Does Debian --in anyway-- try to help people from being sued? Should it? Like 'approved' mirror lists maintaied by mirror and or the related hosting co's -- so they cant be sued? All that needs to is SOME process to clear the air of all the FUD and ultra-liberal or ultra-conservative talk. - -kev
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