Non-Free non-firmware Software in Fedora 9?!?
Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Thu Mar 20 20:06:58 UTC 2008
Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> 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?
Read http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Beats/Java and if you find
actual exceptions to the stated licensing policy, let us know.
Rahul
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