Fedora/RH policies sometimes suck

[Anne Wilson]

On Tuesday 10 April 2007 03:56, Ed Greshko wrote:
>
> Yes, portions of the original OpenOffice are (insert choice word here) due
> to licensing and or other restrictions either expressly noted by OpenOffice
> and/or its contributors or decided by the Fedora packagers to avoid
> potential litigation.
>
> Should you not like it, you are free to download the original rpm's from
> OpenOffice.org.  FWIW, I can't find it...and nobody has pointed to the
> original srpm from OpenOffice.org.
>
However, I agree that there should be some indication that it lacks some 
functionality, so that we can make our own decision before learning about it 
the hard way.  An indicator could be built into the package name.

Anne
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