[Savannah-hackers] Re: submission of Voyeur - Linux game hacking tool - savannah.nongnu.org

[Mathieu Roy]

Rudy Gevaert <address@hidden> said:

> On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 10:31:58PM -0400, Richard Stallman wrote:
> > I cannot accept that view.  We must not say that we refuse to judge
> > the job that software does.  If the purpose or the main use of a
> > program is antisocial, we will not support its development.  
> 
> I think we are walking on a very thin line here.  But maybe it is
> the time to set everything straight as Savannah is getting bigger and
> bigger.  We will surely reoccur such problems in the future.
> 
> If we refuse this project for anti social reasons, then we should
> update the requirements on the Savannah pages.
> 
> Current requirements (please add if I forgot some)
> - must be free software
> - must use a gpl compatible license
> - must run on a free OS
> - must only make use of gpl compatible software
> 
> And what about the P2P clients we are hosting?  They are in the first
> place used to share non-free software and to share music.
> 
> That is antisocial to the free software community too if you consider
> the antisocial requirement.

Why?

Nobody told me when I duplicated an old tape for friend that I was
an antisocial.

A contrario, sharing seems a very social attitude to me. 

While cheating is clearly a dishonnest social attitude, say antisocial.



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