On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 04:42:24PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > It's barely possible that we could get current and new contributors to > sign some kind of CLA containing anti-patent terms, but I don't think > there's any hope of amending the distribution license.
Leaving aside whether you could change the license, or apply a new license only to new contributions (that might be hard unless you're making the history part of the product), ... ...if a CLA is too difficult too, then perhaps demand disclosure by authors of any knowledge they might have of patents that their contribution implements. Nico --
