On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Matthias Klumpp <matth...@nlinux.org> wrote: > On Fri, 2 Jul 2010 16:12:55 +0430, Mohammad Ebrahim Mohammadi Panah > <ebra...@mohammadi.ir> wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Christoph Anton Mitterer >> <cales...@scientia.net> wrote: >>>> Oh suuuuuure. "We are all about freedom, but please no religional >>>> stuff. Oh, and while we are at, get away with porn. And alcohol is bad >>>> too, anything that can help people there, get away....." >>>> Thats not how it works, we cant ask anyone putting things in main to > not >>>> discriminate against persons/groups/fields and then discriminate on our >>>> own. >>> I guess it's quite easy for to judge things like this using common >>> sense... >> >> I don't think my common sense is anything near yours. Isn't Debian >> supposed to be for all of us? > I think this is not the question at all. I clearly agree with adding > packages related to religious stuff, and this application has a right to be > in Debian too. But there is this serious problem with the license: Relying > on "Islamic laws" is not acceptable. The license text is full of references > to prophets sayings and "permissive principles of Islam". I don't thing > this is compliant with the DFSG, cause it does not explain clear enough > what you can do with the software and even Muslims have do argue about it. > In my opinion relying on religious stuff in licenses should not be > permitted. If upstream chooses a BSD-style license etc. there should be no > problem to accept this upload. > I think the ftp-masters will do the right thing too, but I'm sure they need > to think a lot about it before they make a decision. >
I said that saying assuming we're talking about including it in non-free. I completely agree it cannot be in main. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktiledqncwlzktwnnlmgna1p-iquise4liwjlt...@mail.gmail.com
