Debian Bug report logs - #507767
amule: ip2country compiled in is violation of Debian Social,Contract (DFSG 5)

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Marco Hoffmann <reportedbug.debian@marcohoffmann.de>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: amule: ip2country compiled in is violation of Debian Social,Contract (DFSG 5)

Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2008 11:31:40 +0100

Package: amule
Version: 2.2.1-1
Severity: normal

Hello,

thank you for all your work like packaging this free software, which
unfortunately has no gui-tweak to turn the ip2country-feature on and
*off* as far as I see. It seems to be a compiletime option only and
certainly those feeling themselves as humans could compile it
themselves, but as Debian has political guidelines (on foundation day,
Ian might have had an e.g. irish ID, Deborah might "be" whatever, but
Debian doesn't have an irish-whatever double-flag, but
http://www.debian.org/social_contract instead).

Certainly Geoip might be usefull for secret services and military
purposes, for future "ethnical" cleansings of IT-Areas or stuff (don't
let those download or whatever), but these kids in the net screaming how
nicely colourful these flags are and that they feel soo happy to see
their country flags, die in the wars worldwide and I don't particularly
want to support this by silence.

I think/ guess, the ip-areas are given away by organizations or
companies (like global providers or whoever is sending staff there)
after discussing it on meetings and I don't know and don't care whether
there are ip-addresses available for e.g. Palestine or Kurdistan - this
might offend others then anyway and is not desirable IMHO, but
nationalizating Users (this is not to point out where they grew up and which climate there was then, but which army they pay taxes and blood for) is "geistige Mobilmachung"-moral war preparation and I am fed up with this in germany already and don't want it here.
This is why this report is done - no need to reply.

Thanks for listening.


Sincerely,

Marco Hoffmann

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.27.7 (PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored:
LC_ALL set to de_DE.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages amule depends on:
ii  amule-common           2.2.1-1           common files for the rest
of aMule
ii  libc6                  2.7-16            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcrypto++7           5.5.2-2           General purpose
cryptographic shar
ii  libgcc1                1:4.3.2-1         GCC support library
ii  libgeoip1              1.4.4.dfsg-3      A non-DNS IP-to-country
resolver l
ii  libstdc++6             4.3.2-1           The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libupnp3               1:1.6.6-3         Portable SDK for UPnP
Devices (sha
ii  libwxbase2.8-0         2.8.7.1-1.1       wxBase library (runtime) -
non-GUI
ii  libwxgtk2.8-0          2.8.7.1-1.1       wxWidgets Cross-platform
C++ GUI t
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime

Message #10 received at 507767@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Kry <kry@amule.org>

To: 507767@bugs.debian.org

Subject: amule: ip2country compiled in is violation of Debian Social,Contract (DFSG 5)

Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 19:42:33 -0500

Please explain to me how aMule, licensed under the GPL, fails to comply
with DFSG 5:

-- 
5. No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups

The license must not discriminate against any person or group of
persons.
--

Unless you can claim that the GPL is discriminating against any person
or group of persons, I call your "bug" plain FUD, and a total shameful
missuse of the bug report system for propaganda.

Please stick to using the bug report system for bugs in the software,
not to press your views about political or geographical issues onto
people. You're wasting everyone's time.

Message #15 received at 507767-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Sandro Tosi <morph@debian.org>

To: 507767-done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: amule: ip2country compiled in is violation of Debian Social,Contract (DFSG 5)

Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 23:57:07 +0100

I agree with Kry this is a far too biased view to even be considered. Closing.

-- 
Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu)
My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/
Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi

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