On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 02:48:01PM +0700, Benjamin Scherrey wrote: > If you violate a patent, knowingly or otherwise, you are subject to > penalties (perhaps not treble but still penalties) and will have to remove > the offending code unless a deal is reached with the patent holder.
Unless you do a patent search every time you design something, you can't avoid the risk of accidentally infringing. > It is critical that Postgres require that all contributors do not enforce > patents against Postgres - full stop. That's the IP agreement that should > be in place. My take is that the PG license should make royalty-free, non-exclusive, transferrable, worldwide patent grants that are either irrevocable or revocable only againts those who sue the owner. This together with a contributor agreement would stop contributions by patent trolls, but it still wouldn't prevent accidental re-inventions. I don't understand why it's not obvious that one can unknowingly and accidentally re-invent someone else's idea.
