[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#15446) undesirable rulers

["Christian Knoke" <chrisk@xxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=15446 >

Daniel Markstedt wrote on Feb 12, 06:09 (-0800):
> 
> On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 09:52 +0100, Christian Knoke wrote:

> > - Freeciv policy has been, to include all rulers with a certain level of
> > importance.
> > 
> > - Esp. Hitler is important to have, so that people never forget.

> I think you're giving to much credit to Freeciv as an important piece of
> Free World educational software.

May or may not be.

> There's a slight importance gap between Freeciv and history textbooks. ;-)

Doubtless. But that is no reason for Freeciv to rewrite history. ;-)

> Anyways, maintainers have removed offensive rulers on demand before. For
> example this
> http://lists.complete.org/freeciv-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx/2000/11/msg00065.html.gz 
> lead to this
> http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/freeciv/trunk/data/nation/lithuanian.ruleset?r2=3010&r1=2352

I do know nothing about lithuanian history, but if Jogaila has been an
important leader (bad or good), he should probably be in the ruleset.

Christian

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