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Re: Non-Free non-firmware Software in Fedora 9?!?

From: Rahul Sundaram <sundaram fedoraproject org>
To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases <fedora-test-list redhat com>
Cc: Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazqueznet gmail com>
Subject: Re: Non-Free non-firmware Software in Fedora 9?!?
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 01:36:58 +0530

Alexandre Oliva wrote:

On Mar 15, 2008, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazqueznet gmail com> wrote:

It will be the *only* choice in F9. IcedTea has been *removed*.


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?

Read http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Beats/Java and if you findactual exceptions to the stated licensing policy, let us know.


Rahul

References:
- IcedTea replaced with OpenJDK in rawhide - requires manual removal
  - From: Will Woods
- Re: IcedTea replaced with OpenJDK in rawhide - requires manual removal
  - From: Chris Adams
- Re: IcedTea replaced with OpenJDK in rawhide - requires manual removal
  - From: Greg
- Re: IcedTea replaced with OpenJDK in rawhide - requires manual removal
  - From: Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
- Non-Free non-firmware Software in Fedora 9?!? (was: Re: IcedTea replaced with OpenJDK in rawhide - requires manual removal)
  - From: Alexandre Oliva

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