| From: | "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
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| To: | Christopher Browne <cbbrowne(at)acm(dot)org> |
| Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: IBM patent |
| Date: | 2005-01-29 22:32:13 |
| Message-ID: | 20050129183128.K63001@ganymede.hub.org |
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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.
>
> You and I might not have individual objections to this situation, but
> one or another of the companies putting together PostgreSQL releases
> very well might.
But, there is nothing stop'ng them from replacing the ARC code with their
own variant though ...
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