On Mon, 2010-01-11 at 19:54 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Merlin Moncure <mmonc...@gmail.com> writes: > > plus, it looks like that most of the patents have either expired, or > > are about to expire. lzo is used all over the place, including the > > linux kernel...i think the burden of proof rests with anyone claiming > > there are patent problems, not the other way around. lzo is also gpl > > so we can't use it :D. regarding fastlz and patents, who knows? I'm > > curious...does anyone know of a case where a high profile open source > > project was found to be violating a patent? > > You have got that 100% backwards. We are not going to bet the survival > of the Postgres project on whether we can get away with violating > somebody's patent.
+1 Joshua D. Drake > > regards, tom lane > -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 503.667.4564 Consulting, Training, Support, Custom Development, Engineering Respect is earned, not gained through arbitrary and repetitive use or Mr. or Sir. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
