IBM patent

From: Tommi Maekitalo <t(dot)maekitalo(at)epgmbh(dot)de>
To: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: IBM patent
Date: 2005-01-26 11:50:34
Message-ID: 200501261250.34962.t.maekitalo@epgmbh.de
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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-source-variants of postgresql this
BSD-license stays intact, so the use of these patents in postgresql seems ok.

Tommi Mäkitalo

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