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[Les Mikesell]

Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek wrote:
>
>> First, thank you for your responses. I understand about legal issues
>> including some packages or repositories on Fedora. And I understand
>> why Livna is not included. (Because is not official as others parts).
>> But for most part of people is mandatory to have those packages. So,
>> trying to do easy for the final user can we do our official
>> "community" repository? Can we do our official "Fedora Frog" to
>> simplify the installation for common programas? (I believe there are
>> no problem because most part of that sofware can ba downloaded without
>> problems by the user).
> 
> You don't understand. We can't make Livna/RPM Fusion official, because
> of legal issues. And stop here. It's IMPOSSIBLE.

Some of it.  Things like the Nvidia drivers wouldn't be impossible.

> Fedora protects us from any problems with patents by removing
> nonfreeness from repos.

I'd say you have that backwards.  By avoiding the issue, fedora leaves 
every end user on his own when he needs a patented function. That's the 
opposite of protection.

> 
>>      1. Abirwod and Gnumeric are nice, but we are talking about do
>>         Fedora competitive and OpenOffice is the way. Users needs a
>>         suite as powerful as Microsoft Office. 
> 
> And you're sure that EVERYONE needs such functionality?

And a fully functional java.

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