On Sun, 8 May 2005, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
Hackers,
I was reading LWN.net and noticed an article about Eben Moglen's keynote at linux.conf.au. Apparently he advises free software projects to get patents on their best ideas.
Eben encouraged free software developers to record their novel inventions and to obtain patents on the best of them. Free legal help can be made available to obtain patents on the best ideas. Until the rules of the game can be changed, we must play the game, and having the right patents available may make all the difference in defending against an attack.
http://lwn.net/Articles/133421/
Eben Moglen is the FSF's attorney.
I'm wondering, could the PostgreSQL Foundation (or some other entity) get patents on some parts of Postgres? Maybe ResourceOwners for example; or the newer parts of the optimizer.
The patents would be freely licensed to everyone (including commercial redistributors and developers/users of competing products), except to patent litigators, or something like that.
Individual developers could get their work patent'd, I would imagine ...
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