Pipe 2V54 Opensource game rejected from Debian for authors social beliefs

Opensource game rejected from Debian for authors social beliefs

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in linux on (#2V54)
An 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 authors conservative views and his
advocacy of them:

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)

Is professing progressive politics now a hard requirement
for being allowed to contribute to opensource?

History

2014-11-21 23:29
Opensource game rejected from Debian for authors' social beliefs
evilviper@pipedot.org
An open source casino video game was recently posted to
the dDebian bug tracker as a request for packaging, as
is the standard method for pursuing such things in dDebian.

The bug was quickly closed, tagged as "won't fix."
The reason given by one of the dDebian developers
alluded to the authors conservative views and his
advocacy of them:

alluded to the authors' conservative views and his advocacy of them.

The author in question clearly expressed his views back in 2005, resulting in him being the first person ever banned from Debian mailing lists, and a month later from the bug tracking system.

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

. Is professing progressive politics now a hard requirement
for being allowed to contribute to open source?

[Ed. note: The question is, rather, where should the line be between personal and professional?]
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