On 06/25/2013 12:23 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > Josh Berkus <j...@agliodbs.com> writes: >> However, can you tell me what exactly you are concerned about? lz4 is >> under the BSD license, and released by Google. Why are we worried, exactly? > > Patents. The license on the code doesn't matter --- worst case, if > someone objected, we could rewrite the algorithm ourselves to get out > of an alleged copyright violation. But if someone comes after us for > a patent violation we're screwed; or at least, our users who have > terabytes of data stored with an infringing algorithm are screwed.
Taking this off-list, because it is a legal matter. Particularly, it's legally problematic to discuss patents on a public mailing list, as we found out with the ARC patent. -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc. http://pgexperts.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
