LibreOffice on Fedora

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Wed Jan 26 19:48:29 UTC 2011


On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 16:43:08 -0300,
  Fernando Cassia <fcassia at gmail.com> 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?.

It did block including at least one feature that is normally available
when getting the prebuilt images. If you want details that information
should be documented in the src rpm. The same features would need to be blocked
in new builds unless something changes with respect to the patents.


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