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In the spirit of the 'bad words' checking that this pkg does, I wonder if this pkg could be a good place to have a checker that looks to see if a proposed pkg name is a tribe's name and alert the developer to avoid it?
Perhaps this could be a good list to check names with: https://www.federalregister.gov/d/2018-15679 and it's available in XML, but would still need a little tidying to be useful here.
Using an Indigenous tribe's names for software packages is widely considered to be an inappropriate and offensive use of those names, e.g. https://twitter.com/SavvyOlogy/status/1138478892212150272
In the spirit of the 'bad words' checking that this pkg does, I wonder if this pkg could be a good place to have a checker that looks to see if a proposed pkg name is a tribe's name and alert the developer to avoid it?
Perhaps this could be a good list to check names with: https://www.federalregister.gov/d/2018-15679 and it's available in XML, but would still need a little tidying to be useful here.
Several of my anthropologist colleagues have recommended this list (also available in JSON, XML and CSV): https://www.bia.gov/tribal-leaders-directory
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