On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 11:40:41AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: > On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 08:19:35AM -0700, Andres Freund wrote: > > I'm fairly sure that I'm right. But my point isn't that we should "trust > > Andres implicitly ™" (although that's obviously not a bad starting point > > ;)). But rather, given that that is a reasonable assumption that such > > agreements are legally possible, we can decide whether we want to take > > advantage of such terms *assuming they are legally sound*. Then, if, and > > only if, we decide that that's interesting from a policy POV, we can > > verify those assumptions with lawyers. > > > > > Given we're far from the first project dealing with this, and that > > companies that have shown themselves to be reasonably trustworthy around > > open source, like Red Hat, assuming that such agreements are sound seems > > quite reasonable. > > Sun Microsystems seemed reasonably trustworthy too.
Are there patent grants from Sun that Oracle has attempted to renege on? Are there court cases about that? Links? Nico --
