Re: LibreOffice on Fedora

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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.

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