| From: | Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> |
| Cc: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Nico Williams <nico(at)cryptonector(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org, "Tsunakawa, Takayuki" <tsunakawa(dot)takay(at)jp(dot)fujitsu(dot)com>, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: How can we submit code patches that implement our (pending) patents? |
| Date: | 2018-07-24 15:26:44 |
| Message-ID: | 79a72c62-4bc4-cdf8-8637-eb1efe7c930f@2ndquadrant.com |
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On 07/24/2018 05:20 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> On 2018-Jul-24, Dave Page wrote:
>
>> tldr; it's a crap ton of work, risk and uncertainty for what might well be
>> zero benefit at the moment.
>
> Probably easiest way forward is to state the requirement and have
> someone untainted by the patent come up with a clean-room
> re-implementation.
>
Clean room design addresses copyright-related issues, not patents.
regards
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