LibreOffice on Fedora

[Sam Varshavchik]

Rahul Sundaram writes:

> On 01/27/2011 01:13 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> wrote:
>>> A maintainer wouldn't have to be from Oracle, anyone could do it. They'd
>>> still have to leave out the stuff that had patent issues.
>> I´m not following wrt patents. It´s the same bloody code.
>> And why didn´t it prevent Fedora from including OO.o in the past?.
> 
> Openoffice.org package in Fedora had a few features removed due to such
> issues.  Any new maintainer has to take into consideration the same
> problems as well. 

Not that it really matters, but just, theoretically speaking, if an Oracle 
developer took over openoffice.org, and pushed out a package with those 
features reenabled, that would be a pretty good argument that all of that 
stuff's patents are now latched.



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