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

[Rahul Sundaram]

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