[Ichthux-devel] The purpose of IchthuX

[Raphaël Pinson]

Le Mardi 17 Mai 2005 22:48, David Blue (Mailing List Address) a écrit :
> With all the discussions about licenses, and packages, and packaging
> practices I was wondering, what exactly is the purpose of IchthuX? I mean
> is it just another linux distribution geared towards Christians? Or is it
> something more, something like a ministry.
>
> If we are only the former, then by all means conduct business as all the
> other distros do, do what is best for the distro. However, if we are indeed
> the latter then we should be focusing on what will bring God the most
> glory, since that is truly the ultimate goal of any ministry or any project
> of/from God.
>
> If it will bring more glory to God to maintain an idealistic standard for
> free software and documents based on the Debian social contract, or what
> ever the chosen metric becomes, then by all means let us do that. But if
> maintaining a more loose view of freedom with things like including PitP in
> the core would bring God the more glory, then I say we should do this
> instead, even if it means we are not living up to the debian standard.
>
> And while I like the whole free as in lemonade/speech/freedom spectrum, I
> personally would much rather see IchthuX be free as in grace.
>
> Just some thoughts.

Hi David,

The purpose of Ichthux has to be both for sure. It has to be something like a 
ministry because we are christians and everything we do should be inspired by 
prayer, and it has to be a distribution geared towards christians in the fact 
because this is the technical way we chose. We are not very numerous (yet at 
least) and thus it is unthinkable to think about developping a whole distro. 
It would be a loss of time to work on thousands of packages. Making it a CDD 
allows us to focus on our goal, but to make it so we need to follow Debian 
rules, since CDDs are within Debian. 
When a community builds a Church, they surely do it for the glory of God, they 
surely choose to make it a building because that's the most adapted technical 
option, and they surely have to respect the laws and the rules of the city in 
which they settle. It's just the same here. All three facts are not 
exclusive, they are complementary as for anything Christians do within the 
society.
Making a new kind of licence not compatible with Debian would just cut us from 
Debian and prevent us from building on it properly. Maybe that is what we 
might do later on, but I don't feel this would help at all now.

Raphaël
 
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