Non-Free non-firmware Software in Fedora 9?!? (was: Re: IcedTea replaced with OpenJDK in rawhide - requires manual removal)

[Jesse Keating]

On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 16:40 -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> OpenJDK is not Free Software yet.  "GPLv2 with exceptions" is not the
> license for OpenJDK, it's the license for the Free Software portion of
> OpenJDK.  There's non-Free Software in there as well.
> 
> How did this get past the Packaging Guidelines and the Licensing
> policies, if it's clearly against the stated goal of the Fedora
> project and its own policies?
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=438421
> 
> 
> Couldn't we at least provide a choice for those who naïvely believed
> Fedora was about freedom, retaining IcedTea as an option, rather than
> obsoleting it?

As the bug states, you're going to need to provide some examples to your
claims.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?
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