Package Maintainers Flags policy

alcapcom alcapcom at gmail.com
Tue May 19 17:12:00 UTC 2009


2009/5/19 Seth Vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org>:
> 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?

IMHO it's an upstream problem not a Fedora one.

Maybe sometimes upstream are to close to a given conflict to take a
appropriate decision. In such cases, FESCO can use the current policy
but only in this kind of cases. Make that sens?

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

It's a way of doing, maybe not the only one.

Alphonse




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