Package Maintainers Flags policy

Seth Vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Tue May 19 13:59:07 UTC 2009



On Tue, 19 May 2009, alcapcom wrote:

> 2009/5/18 Björn Persson <bjorn at xn--rombobjrn-67a.se>:
>> To me it would seem more reasonable to install the flags by default. Then the
>> anti-whatever extremists could just remove them, and the more relaxed among
>> us would see the user interface the way the authors intended without jumping
>> through additional hoops.
>
> +1
>
> But I will try to say it in another way.
>
> Unfortunate peoples that live in countries where a _simple_ flag can
> give troubles for whatever cause/reason, can remove them all to be
> able to use Fedora. But please, don't cut our freedom just to be more
> friendly with authoritarian regimes.

What if a non-authoritarian regime didn't want us to distribute a flag 
that was offensive to their democratically-empowered populace? Would that 
be okay then?

the whole reason for nuking the set of flags entirely is so we are NOT 
choosing sides.

-sv


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