From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
To: Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be>
Cc: 54691@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#54691: fortune-mod propagates various non-nice things
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2022 21:30:59 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87leswxyy4.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3fc3794df2d837c16ce768594c3ea9086b5f0abf.camel@telenet.be> (Maxime Devos's message of "Sun, 03 Apr 2022 15:09:25 +0200")
Hi Maxime,
Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be> writes:
> Hi guix,
>
> fortune-mod currently propagates (in the non-technical sense) various
> non-nice things like objectification, misogeny, religious intolerance,
> anti-mathematician-ism (?) and date rape. That is not an exhaustive
> list, these are just the first few things I encountered with "fortune
> off".
>
> To reproduce the issue, run "fortune off" a few times. Or just
> "fortune", though then it can take a bit longer.
>
> There are also a few non-nice things in the non-off set. E.g.:
>
> $ fortune
>> User n.:
>> A programmer who will believe anything you tell him.
> # ^ from 'definitions'
>
> As such, just removing 'off' doesn't seem sufficient. Unless Someone™
> volunteers to remove the anti-fortunes (*), I would just remove
> 'fortune-mod', given that it seems to serve no practical purpose byond
> being non-nice. WDYT?
'off' here apparently means the 'offensive' database, as explained by
Liliana; seems it offends alright :-).
The GNU FSDG has says nothing about what programs may or may not
contain, for a good reason: the line to draw could get very subjective
(similar to how the GPL ).
I don't think we should judge our software on terms falling outside of
the Free Software Distribution Guidelines, but a simple thing we could
add here would be a note in the description to caution the user that
running
@example
fortune off
@end example
is intended to be offensive.
What do you think?
Thanks,
Maxim
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-07-14 1:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-04-03 13:09 bug#54691: fortune-mod propagates various non-nice things Maxime Devos
2022-04-03 17:26 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2022-04-03 18:12 ` Maxime Devos
2022-04-03 18:41 ` Maxime Devos
2022-04-04 10:41 ` Maxime Devos
2022-07-19 19:20 ` Maxime Devos
2022-07-20 4:31 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2022-07-20 8:45 ` Maxime Devos
2022-07-20 16:57 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2022-07-20 18:50 ` Maxime Devos
2022-04-03 18:20 ` Maxime Devos
2022-07-14 1:30 ` Maxim Cournoyer [this message]
2022-07-14 13:00 ` Csepp
2022-07-14 14:55 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2022-07-19 18:54 ` Maxime Devos
2022-07-19 19:45 ` Maxime Devos
2022-07-23 15:06 ` bug#54691: [PATCH v3 2/6] gnu: Add daikichi Liliana Marie Prikler
2022-07-23 15:06 ` bug#54691: [PATCH v2 1/5] " Liliana Marie Prikler
2022-07-23 15:06 ` bug#54691: [PATCH " Liliana Marie Prikler
2022-07-23 15:11 ` bug#54691: [PATCH v3 3/6] gnu: Add fortunes-jkirchartz Liliana Marie Prikler
2022-07-23 15:11 ` bug#54691: [PATCH v2 2/5] " Liliana Marie Prikler
2022-07-23 15:11 ` bug#54691: [PATCH " Liliana Marie Prikler
2022-07-23 19:54 ` Maxime Devos
2022-07-23 20:43 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2022-07-23 21:41 ` Maxime Devos
2022-07-23 21:52 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2022-07-23 22:13 ` Maxime Devos
2022-07-23 19:56 ` Maxime Devos
2022-07-23 20:53 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2022-07-23 22:01 ` Maxime Devos
2022-07-24 1:09 ` bokr
2022-07-23 15:13 ` bug#54691: [PATCH 3/5] gnu: Remove fortune-mod Liliana Marie Prikler
2022-07-23 19:58 ` Maxime Devos
2022-07-23 20:54 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2022-07-23 15:13 ` bug#54691: [PATCH v2 " Liliana Marie Prikler
[not found] ` <87y1w5sarm.fsf_-_@gnu.org>
2022-08-03 17:09 ` bug#54691: fortune-mod propagates various non-nice things Liliana Marie Prikler
2022-08-04 12:23 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-08-04 15:37 ` [bug#56599] " Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Guix-patches via
2022-08-04 17:12 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2022-08-04 19:58 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix
[not found] ` <20220806230112.GA16948@LionPure>
2022-08-06 23:05 ` Maxime Devos
2022-07-23 15:13 ` bug#54691: [PATCH v3 4/6] gnu: Remove fortune-mod Liliana Marie Prikler
2022-07-23 15:16 ` bug#54691: [PATCH v2 4/5] gnu: Remove rinutils Liliana Marie Prikler
2022-07-24 10:33 ` paren--- via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2022-07-24 11:27 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2022-07-23 15:16 ` bug#54691: [PATCH v3 5/6] " Liliana Marie Prikler
2022-07-23 15:16 ` bug#54691: [PATCH 4/5] " Liliana Marie Prikler
2022-07-23 15:17 ` bug#54691: [PATCH 5/5] gnu: Remove shlomif-cmake-modules Liliana Marie Prikler
2022-07-23 15:17 ` bug#54691: [PATCH v2 " Liliana Marie Prikler
2022-07-23 15:17 ` bug#54691: [PATCH v3 6/6] " Liliana Marie Prikler
2022-08-13 9:26 ` bug#54691: [PATCH v3 1/6] build-system: copy: Support #:tests? Liliana Marie Prikler
2022-08-28 22:16 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
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