Aaron Gaudio wrote:
> fortune has had the -o option for a long time, and in fact I think
> Fedora and RH doesn't even ship with the 'offensive' fortunes. That's
> the way to do it; let the developers have fun, but inform the users as
> much as possible and let them choose how risque they are willing to be
> with their systems.
Actually, these days they don't ship fortune at all: I understood that
there was too much risk of copyright infringement [1] for a basic toy.
But they never did ship the offensive ones outside a SRPM. And you're
right, that's the way to do it!
James.
[1] Distributing the entire text of a poem is copyright infringement
under UK, US, and lots of other legal systems.
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