On Wednesday, January 26, 2011 07:01:26 pm Rahul Sundaram did opine: > On 01/27/2011 04:57 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > > 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@xxxxxxxx> > >>> > >>> 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. > > Depends. I will be careful about making simplistic conclusions. > Microsoft and Sun had a patent license agreement several years back and > Oracle would have one now as part of their acquisition. Oracle is also > one of the Microsoft partners for the recently formed CPTN patent > holding entity used as a front to buy over 800 patents from Novell so > they might as well as have independent cross licensing agreements. > Typically each organization has to evaluate patent risks for themselves. > > Rahul And, given the track record, its a chance I wouldn't take. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) <http://www.captaincanadacrusades.ca/articles/none-dare-call-it- conspiracy%5B1%5D.pdf> If parents would only realize how they bore their children. -- G.B. Shaw -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
