Just found this issue when trying to figure out why the wgtunnel app wasn’t on F-Droid. I found it interesting and I thought maybe you guys would too.
Other related threads/issues:
https://gitlab.com/fdroid/admin/-/work_items/612
https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/merge_requests/27861
https://gitlab.com/IzzyOnDroid/repo/-/work_items/874
Mentioning here that the dev’s objection to F-Droid was that they marked the Holy Bible as “NSFW” would’ve saved us all a click.
He should try emailing the text of Ezekiel 23:20 to his coworkers and see what happens.
Which Bible? I don’t see which mythos they are talking about?
The holy one. The one with holes in it, I suppose.
That commit was reverted, so religious apps remained SFW
Incredible how much people still whine over a work of fiction in 2026.
Maybe this developer should not have used an open source license if she did not want this software to be redistributed freely.
Also, marking bibles as NSFW does not seem like that big a deal. You can’t proselytize at work.
Does she object to all open source projects that have received any kind of government funding? I’m not sure that I would want to use software developed by someone with such remarkably poor judgement.
I am starting to doubt what people mean by NSFW.
Is the bible not appropriare for children? Some passages are certainly a little tricky, one may fall on one side or the other on the issue, but it’s a discussion that reasonable people might have.
Is it Not Safe For Work? I don’t think so.
What does proselytizing have to do with anything? Is that why porn is considered NSFW?
Will it cause problems if you are caught watching porn on your phone in the cafeteria during lunch break? Yes, unless you literally work at Brazzers.
Are you going to be disciplined for reading the Bible in the cafeteria during lunch break? Well I would hope not.
Most of the objectionable things that can be found on the Wikipedia entry for say, the Waco siege, or some random war reportage.
NSFW did not use to mean “not for minors”. There are plenty of things unsuitable for children that won’t raise anyone’s eyebrow among your colleagues.
Ezekiel 23:20 For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.
And that’s a tamer one, there is torture, rape, mass killing. Of course most Bibles from the many different religions are NSFW.
I’m surprised.
Noone at my work would blink if they found me carrying, I don’t know, some Clive Barker book.
Most of that kind of content can be found on newspapers now, the state of the world being what it is, and where I work noone I think would object to me reading about that stuff (as long as I don’t do it on the company’s dime).
And I live in Germany which, I hear all the time from across the pond, has all kinds of free speech issues.
Again, I’m not saying I’d let my son read the bible.
Yeah, no one at my work would care as long as you’re not making it weird, I think before I got here people were probably reading 59 shades of grey or other “spicy” books.
I think it’s hypocritical to call some books as not appropriate for school or work while allowing religious texts that have that in it.
I’ve read tamer media that would still qualify as questionable. I think the real question is whether something is “NSFW” if it’s written media rather than visual since it’s unlikely a colleague is reading your book.
That being the case, F-Droid has its own definition for NSFW, and no reasonable definition of NSFW that doesn’t specifically exclude written media or religious texts would exclude the Bible (or any Abrahamic religious text, really). It’s more that those books get a pass for historical reasons than anything else.
As I wrote above, noone where I work would blink for that kind of stuff, but I guess that doepends on the local culture.
I have looked and couldn’t find the F-Droid definition of NSFW.
But I’ve bit bits of the discussion and the whole thing was kinda nuts. By my criterion I’d let the Bible pass, but the way all those people jumped to “So ArE yOu BaNnInG tHe QuRaN aS wElL??!!?” was really embarassing.
Also, marking bibles as NSFW does not seem like that big a deal. You can’t proselytize at work.
Have you seen Latin America and the USA?
Google is far less ethical than F-Droid, and yet the developer doesn’t mind leaving it up on there.
This seems to be old stuff and already resolved if I didn’t miss anything?
So the github post is 8 months old and the app is still up on F-Droind. Doesn’t seem like much drama to me.
The app isn’t on F-Droid, only in the Izzy on Droid repo which, afaIk, essentially fetches it directly from its Github repo.
