Opensource game rejected from Debian for authors' social beliefs

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Anonymous Coward
in linux on (#2V55)
An open source 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.

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 Linux (ASCII-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?]

Re: Notice (Score: 2, Interesting)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-11-23 11:06 (#2V6S)

I respect his right to hate females. I do not respect him for his stance. I believe everyone should be judged on their code, methodology, output, coherence, bugs, elegance, but not on their alignment. Take it from evil POV: if ISIL released a worthy successor FPS to the reigning champions of today I would congratulate then and give it a whirl. Just imagine it.. Jihadi Master - America Dies Now. Kill the unbelievers, take their women, raid their riches, conquer the World. Just because they are crazy assed loons with an invisible man inferiority complex is no reason alone to outright diss their potential positive contributions to humanity.
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