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

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Mar 15, 2008, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazqueznet at 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?

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?

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