package submission policy question
Chris Ricker
kaboom at oobleck.net
Wed Jun 1 09:59:48 UTC 2005
On Tue, 31 May 2005, Michael A. Peters wrote:
> A private e-mail from a packager I highly respect expressed some
> concerns relating to two package I requested for review
>
> sword (and by extension gnomesword)
>
> The concern was two-fold:
>
> 1) the nature of the software could be seen as religious
> efforts/campaigns
Really, sword's just a text viewing api that's basically content-agnostic
(and there are non-scriptural texts available in the XML / XHTML markup
formats it supports) but which has some features that are most widely used
by people studying scriptures (side-by-side translation comparisons,
linking to concordances, etc.)
> 2) the title of the software, sword, could invoke negative reactions
> from some people
so could "suck", which is shipped ;-)
*shrug* sword's not software I use, but I don't see any reason it
shouldn't be available for those who would like it.
later,
chris
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