Re: [HACKERS] IBM patent

2005-01-31 Thread Tommi Maekitalo
Am Samstag, 29. Januar 2005 23:32 schrieb Marc G. Fournier: > On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, Christopher Browne wrote: > > Actually, the latter isn't so. > > > > If Mammoth or Pervasive or such release their own release of > > PostgreSQL, nothing has historically mandated that they make that > > release avai

Re: [HACKERS] IBM patent

2005-01-29 Thread Kevin Brown
Marc G. Fournier wrote: > On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, Christopher Browne wrote: > > >Actually, the latter isn't so. > > > >If Mammoth or Pervasive or such release their own release of > >PostgreSQL, nothing has historically mandated that they make that > >release available under the BSD license. > > > >

Re: [HACKERS] IBM patent

2005-01-29 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, Christopher Browne wrote: Actually, the latter isn't so. If Mammoth or Pervasive or such release their own release of PostgreSQL, nothing has historically mandated that they make that release available under the BSD license. Presumably acceptance of the patent would change that

Re: [HACKERS] IBM patent

2005-01-29 Thread Christopher Browne
Oops! [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tommi Maekitalo) was seen spray-painting on a wall: > Hi, > > I just read about this IBM-patent-issue at www.heise.de. IBM grants > this patens to all projects, which follow one of the licenses, which > are approved by the open-source-initiative. And the BSD-license is > as

[HACKERS] IBM patent

2005-01-26 Thread Tommi Maekitalo
Hi, I just read about this IBM-patent-issue at www.heise.de. IBM grants this patens to all projects, which follow one of the licenses, which are approved by the open-source-initiative. And the BSD-license is as far as I see approved (I found "New BSD license"). When releasing commercial closed