Re: IBM releases 500 patents

From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to>
To: Elein Mustain <elein(at)tulip(dot)norcov(dot)com>
Cc: Darcy Buskermolen <darcy(at)wavefire(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: IBM releases 500 patents
Date: 2005-01-14 16:28:52
Message-ID: 20050114162852.GA21306@wolff.to
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On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 10:33:44 -0800,
Elein Mustain <elein(at)tulip(dot)norcov(dot)com> wrote:
> They probaly released the informix database patents.
> This is pertinent to us as several of them were interesting
> implementations of things like the function manager.

From what I read of this, the way they released the patents isn't completely
compatible with BSD licenses.

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