On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 06:12:44PM +0000, Steve Pitchford wrote: > Tim Maher wrote: > > >On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 08:58:01AM -0800, alan wrote: > > > >>>On a more serious side, getting rid of it [Time::Cubic] should be > >>>pretty open and shut. CPAN is a public resource managed by private > >>>entities. > > > >I'm generally against the idea of censorship in all its forms, and > >/definitely/ against the idea of removing a Perl module from CPAN just > >because something *within the code* offended somebody--or even lots of > >somebodies! > > I'm not sure if you've read the module in question. Its not comments > within code, its a small meaningless piece of perl that achieves nothing > in an otherwise long rant.
Hmm. While conveying my thoughts on this issue earlier, I relied on a characterization of Time::Cubic in an earlier posting that led me to believe that it was *comments within the module* that were offending people. The notion of policing those struck me as an unwarranted intrusion into the programmer's domain, which led to my spirited (albeit misplaced) defense of the programmer's rights. Now that I've looked at the module's *documentation*--which is the bulk of what it has to offer--I see that there is a lengthy anti- semitic rant by an apparently troubled individual--formatted as Perl comments--embedded within "code" shown in the License section. That's a bird of a different feather. > In short - it is ( IMHO ) a piece of spam that perverts CPAN into a > publishing resource <SNIP> > Steve I now understand why so many people were voting for "censorship", with so few defending the rights of the programmer. Given what we're dealing with, I'm now in agreement that this "Module" is effectively spam, and should be treated accordingly. -Tim *-------------------------------------------------------------------* | Tim Maher, PhD (206) 781-UNIX http://www.consultix-inc.com | | tim at ( Consultix-Inc, TeachMePerl, or TeachMeUnix ) dot Com | | Classes: 2/28: Basic Perl; 3/12: Basic UNIX/Linux; 3/16: Min Perl | *-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-* | * "Minimal Perl" book rates 4.8 out of 5 stars at Amazon.com! * | | > Download chapters, read reviews, and order at MinimalPerl.com < | *-------------------------------------------------------------------*
