Re: CoC policy for package contents

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