From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>, Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>, Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine(at)hi-media(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Compression Library and Usages |
Date: | 2010-01-12 00:54:31 |
Message-ID: | 1263257671.27367.49.camel@jd-desktop.unknown.charter.com |
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On Mon, 2010-01-11 at 19:54 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)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.
+1
Joshua D. Drake
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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