From patchwork Thu May 3 04:36:42 2018 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Carlos O'Donell X-Patchwork-Id: 27075 Received: (qmail 44687 invoked by alias); 3 May 2018 04:36:52 -0000 Mailing-List: contact libc-alpha-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: libc-alpha-owner@sourceware.org Delivered-To: mailing list libc-alpha@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 44670 invoked by uid 89); 3 May 2018 04:36:51 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-26.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, GIT_PATCH_0, GIT_PATCH_1, GIT_PATCH_2, GIT_PATCH_3, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=Government, Developer, government, contacting X-HELO: mail-qt0-f175.google.com X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:cc:references:from:openpgp :organization:message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to :content-language:content-transfer-encoding; bh=0qmey2fCQlA9222cWcWeXGZU10QaY7w72jbzgrrCaY4=; b=MbAxqx07W0InLj6OZYVvCCybxnqy0ZS/Vm0+morIE9+AwbF4yOmI/Ygjc9bv1K7BKS SrdzIxoKryuUx6mepaGy4wbeUtahQm8lvyi3VyFj7weoxKjLgEJqtKvtEaUuTmlx8/MY b9pa4o4nT/M6m4WWmTt69fHtYL1UxJTgRId1wb48tbQmr/AU7aPJ87no829op92ojIGe 1ZW2osKcSTZchzXykMYOVu2JEiClzbwZqv+ygN3wA/mssokpZVqro0IwyaXf28bdAADV VBXmnDVVq5PaIp4Lrs8P8u2Ws0WfmzMnROw6CQ/tteQkCxFM6QUQyqHJzQMp1eSzVaL7 HWtw== X-Gm-Message-State: ALQs6tACJFqU6TGTEO9EAOZM/Vma8KMBOLFMxlOALAQkigtej3Xp8Cra I+T64Mah7/s9cUWV2c1SorOsSQYXSlE= X-Google-Smtp-Source: AB8JxZpaxIcBi8OYZJDZunyVab0d8zo1l1avk0k4fk7EkaAhT1BPesLbOp6G2/sC9KZXBHOHQWgWFA== X-Received: by 2002:ac8:1a2d:: with SMTP id v42-v6mr19130670qtj.121.1525322207369; Wed, 02 May 2018 21:36:47 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [rain1@airmail.cc] Delete abortion joke To: rms@gnu.org, Zack Weinberg , Alexandre Oliva Cc: libc-alpha@sourceware.org References: From: Carlos O'Donell Openpgp: preference=signencrypt Message-ID: Date: Thu, 3 May 2018 00:36:42 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: On 05/01/2018 11:11 PM, Richard Stallman wrote: > [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] > [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] > [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > > However, the GNU C Library Manual is an actively > > inappropriate place to discuss it, > > A serious discussion of an unrelated political issue would be a > strange digression. The joke is appropriate precisely because it is a > joke, and very short. > > Since you understand it wasn't right to delete this without my > approval, would you please undo that mistake? As a GNU Developer for the community I OK'd the patch. As a GNU Developer I answer to the GNU Project. I also apologize for not contacting you directly. This does not change my position on the joke and it's relation to abortion and censorship. A large group of developers, serious senior developers, at least 3 project stewards (GNU Developers for the project), are indicating that they do not share your same view on the joke. Please consider their input and work with me to reach a consensus position. The underlying notions that the joke tries to express are important and I am more than willing to engage with you and Alex to write new text and put it back into the manual to meet our needs to express a viewpoint on censorship. Let me propose another the following patch for discussion. It is *not* a @cartouche, and will therefore be visible in all of our info and html files (which is better IMO). 2018-05-03 Carlos O'Donell * manual/intro.texi (Government Censorship): New node. diff --git a/manual/intro.texi b/manual/intro.texi index cc9c99f543..b413652194 100644 --- a/manual/intro.texi +++ b/manual/intro.texi @@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ portability. @menu * Getting Started:: What this manual is for and how to use it. +* Government Censorship:: Government censorship. * Standards and Portability:: Standards and sources upon which the GNU C library is based. * Using the Library:: Some practical uses for the library. @@ -29,7 +30,7 @@ portability. this manual. @end menu -@node Getting Started, Standards and Portability, , Introduction +@node Getting Started, Government Censorship, , Introduction @section Getting Started This manual is written with the assumption that you are at least @@ -56,6 +57,21 @@ are writing your programs you can recognize @emph{when} to make use of library functions, and @emph{where} in this manual you can find more specific information about them. +@node Government Censorship, Standards and Portability, Getting Started, Introduction +@section Government Censorship +@cindex censorship + +@string{Trigger warning: Talk of abortion.} + +The GNU project takes the position that government censorship should +not be supported. Censorship threatens the distribution of information +in ways that restricts the freedoms of our users and harms the creativity +of the project. + +Censorship of technical information, cultural information, and even +information related to human abortion (regardless of your position on +the topic), should not be supported. Such censorship restricts the +freedoms of all users. @node Standards and Portability, Using the Library, Getting Started, Introduction @section Standards and Portability