Pipe 2V8J Debian excludes game due to author's views on women.

Debian excludes game due to author's views on women.

by
Anonymous Coward
in linux on (#2V8J)
A DFSG complaint opensource casino video game was
recently posted to the debian bug tracker as a request
for packaging, as is the standard method for pursuing
such things in debian.

The bug was quickly closed, tagged as "won't fix"
The reason given by one of the debian developers
alluded to the author's opinion on women:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=770314

The piece of software in question is licensed
under the GPL and is one of the only of it's
kind for linux (ascii-art console slot machine software)

Debian packages many ascii-art / text console
video games of similar quality.

Is professing inclusive social views now a hard requirement
for being allowed to contribute to free software projects?

#gamergate #geekfeminism
score -1
  • Closed (Dupe of #2V55)
Reply 1 comments

I decided not to vote on A.C. submissions anymore.... (Score: 1)

by tanuki64@pipedot.org on 2014-11-25 06:27 (#2V8P)

....but I change this decision now. Negative votes are still possible.