On 2013-06-25 12:08:22 -0700, Josh Berkus wrote: > On 06/25/2013 11:42 AM, Andres Freund wrote: > > True. So, how do we proceed on that? > > > > The ASF decided it was safe to use lz4 in cassandra. Does anybody have > > contacts over there? > > > > Btw, I have the feeling we hold this topic to a higher standard wrt > > patent issues than other work in postgres... > > We have access to attorneys, both in the US and Canada. I will proceed > to ask for real legal advice.
Cool! > However, can you tell me what exactly you are concerned about? lz4 is > under the BSD license, and released by Google. Snappy is released/copyrighted by google. lz4 by Yann Collet. Both are under BSD licenses (3 and 2 clause variants respectively). I don't think we need to worry about the license. > Why are we worried, exactly? The concerns I heard about were all about patent issues. Greetings, Andres Freund -- Andres Freund http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
