Re: LibreOffice on Fedora

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On 01/27/2011 01:15 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> They'd
>> still have to leave out the stuff that had patent issues.
> Sine the USPTO basically gives patents on about anything, it´s a mine
> field. Basically you don´t know if something infringes on someone
> else´s patent until you get sued.

Sometimes but not always. 

> Novell owns patents as well
> http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/211366/microsoft_purchasing_882_novell_patents.html
>
> So is Fedora dropping all Novell originated code?

One has to show that the particular patents in question are being
infringed by code included within Fedora.  

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Software_Patents

Rahul
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