Package Maintainers Flags policy

[Bastien Nocera]

On Mon, 2009-05-18 at 19:32 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > (I didn't even read the policy, but I guess it's the same one we had
> > arguments over in GNOME 6 years ago, and a bit before that in RH
> > itself).
> 
> On the other hand, KDE upstream explicitly decided NOT to ban flags, as they
> consider banning flags to be a political move and to go against KDE's
> principle of political neutrality.

And as soon as you make a choice, one way or the other, you end up not
being neutral any more. Maybe the project is neutral, but the person
that makes the decision and is part of the project isn't.