On Mar 20, 2008, Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=438421 I apologize for jumping to conclusions based on the package name and the announcement I saw at http://developer.redhatmagazine.com/2008/03/12/openjdk-to-replace-icedtea-in-fedora-9/ quoted at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Beats/Java Sun has replaced most of the encumbrances for which IcedTea was providing replacements. *most* was not enough for me or for Fedora. But there's clarification in the bug report as to what actually happened. IIUC, it's still IcedTea, but now under the OpenJDK name, and it's based on a post-JDK6 snapshot of OpenJDK that has had many of the encumbered bits replaced with Free Software bits, and the few remaining bits under dubious licenses have been safely removed to form Fedora's java-1.6.0-openjdk. IMHO it should still be somehow marked to distinguish it from Sun's [Open]JDK6, and the messaging especially in the release notes should make it clear that *all* of the encumbered bits have been removed from Fedora's package, such that it is actually Free Software. I hope this helps, -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ FSF Latin America Board Member http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
