Anarchism FAQ?! WTF?...

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 01:28:23AM +1100, Daniel Pittman wrote:
> "Michael T. Richter" <ttmrichter at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > What is a political screed on anarchism doing in the Ubuntu
> > repositories? 
> 
> Someone packaged it, in Debian, and it became part of Ubuntu (universe)
> as a result of the routine sync between the two distributions.
> 
> > Would similar packages for, say, communism, national socialism,
> > Objectivist capitalism, libertarianism, etc. be accepted?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> Seriously, what did you think the answer was going to be?
> 
> 
> The problem with freedom -- and much of the free software movement, of
> which Ubuntu is a part, is about freedom -- is that people publish ideas
> that disagree with you.
>
> It may seem odd but, at the end of the day, as long as the content
> adheres to the rules of Debian and Ubuntu there is no reason for it to
> be excluded.

I don't think that the political position of this document is as much of an
issue as the question of whether it's appropriate to distribute large
documents, of no direct relevance to Ubuntu, in the form of Ubuntu packages
simply for the sake of making them easy to install.  Works of literature,
encyclopaedic content, etc. are subject to the same debate.

There was a similar question in Debian some time ago, where I believe this
same package was used as an example.

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 - mdz