On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 7:54 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> 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.
I was only talking about the specific case of lzo, which is used absolutely everywhere (not that this means anything but...). merlin -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
