Fedora/RH policies sometimes suck

[Alan Cox]

> No-one is answering the question.  Forget the OpenOffice fixation.  The 
> question is 'How do we know which of Fedora's packages have been altered in 
> this way?'  OpenOffice would be one, but there are others.  Totem comes to 
> mind, and I'd guess that there are lots more.  As Les remarked, it could be 
> indicated in the package name.

rpm -q --changelog

can tell you an awful lot about a package

> As for how it would help, we could then decide for ourselves whether we need 
> to go to the source and build our own packages.

If you are a non-US citizen yes. Otherwise knowing merely makes you
liable for triple damages and other penalties...