On 03/06/2014 09:11 PM, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
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On 03/06/2014 03:02 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> I certainly did file a complaint against generic-logos which has
>> a similar problem with Fedora Board which in turn dismissed my
>> concern and failed to answer my follow up question and I gave up
>> on it. That is of course artwork that Fedora itself is upstream
>> of rather than merely something we package. One would hope that
>> the new standard applies to concerns outside of U.S as well.
>
> That's the crux of the issue, "offensive" is really interpreted as
> "offensive to people in the USA". That just does not make sense
> for a worldwide distribution, nor even for an international
> company.
>
This statement is blatantly false.
And I consider this to be blatantly naive. You will always find somebody
who complains about something and you will always find situations, which
were things are far from being clear.
Just consider the "F20 swastika background" and a Fedora release once
having been called "Werewulf". As a German, both incidents caused me to
"raise an eye-brow", but weren't worth it to make a fuzz about.
That said, it would seem common sense to me for FESCO to have contacted
some official representative of the "American Indian People" or the
"Cherokee Nation/People" and ask for their opinion.
Did this happen? What did these representatives say?
Ralf