Rather than trying to get into a religious discussion with you, which
clearly would be pointless, I will try to explain a different issue.
This simply does not relate to FlightGear!
Yes, we each could build releases with our own personal, religious, ethnic,
or political message, but that is not going to help with FG, but instead is
going to get a bunch of people arguing, as has already been demonstrated.
("Are you going to download the Catholic FlightGear, or the Jewish One, or
the Democratic, or anti-gay version...?"). It will get very silly very
quickly.
There are plenty of places to argue about religion, if you choose.
The problem is that you have chosen to use the work of others as a platform
for your personal beliefs. While you can do that under the license, it
surely is not the intent of the other people who are working on this.
Many of us find it extremely offensive to have the appearance that our work
is supporting your message, which we disagree with.
So, no, it does not satisfy the issue. Would you feel uncomfortable if
there were a version of FG that was explicitly anti-Jesus? Would you be
willing to work on it? I don't mean this as a threat, but instead to help
you understand what some other people are feeling.
So I am explicitly asking you to please consider removing your personal
message from the package.
-- Adam
> From: Arthur Wiebe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: FlightGear developers discussions <flightgear-devel@flightgear.org>
> Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 14:24:38 -0500
> To: FlightGear developers discussions <flightgear-devel@flightgear.org>
> Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear 0.9.8, Mac OS X build
>
> Hi Everyone,
>
> In case you don't know I'm the one who created the distribution in question.
>
> First of all I believe that the contents of the RTF file should be
> welcomed by everyone, and I also believe they are true.
> But I also realize that it may be harmful to this project by turning
> people away from it.
>
> I am not a religious person but do believe Jesus Christ meant it when
> he said "Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every
> creature" and saw this as another potential medium.
>
> What I will do and am in the process of doing is update the package to
> include this in an About.rtf file:
>
> "The following contents have been included by Arthur Wiebe and may not
> reflect the views of any of the contributors or developers of the
> FlightGear project."
>
> O hope that satisfies this issue.
> I also believe the Bible when it says, "If it be possible, as much as
> lieth in you, live peaceably with all men."
>
> By the way I am also going to fix the permissions issue at the same time.
>
> On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 19:51:08 +0100, Durk Talsma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Curt wrote:
>>> I suggest that we try (as much as possible) to stay focused on building
>>> flight simulators. If we diverge into a heated discussion of religion
>>> (or politics, or text editors, or operating systems, etc.) we are just
>>> going to hate each other at the end of the day, and we will be much less
>>> effective as a leading open source project.
>>
>> Martin Spott wrote:
>>> view point, it's just that he chose a medium to carry his opinion that
>>> is totally unacceptable.
>>>
>>
>> In my opinion, both arguments clearly express why a religious document should
>> not be part of an official FlightGear distribution. Not even necesarily
>> because it's religious. It's off-topic and therefore unprofessional.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Durk
>>
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