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@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.