| From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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| To: | Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> |
| Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org, "Tsunakawa, Takayuki" <tsunakawa(dot)takay(at)jp(dot)fujitsu(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(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: | 2018-07-23 14:27:10 |
| Message-ID: | 20180723142710.GH9200@momjian.us |
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On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 07:08:32AM -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2018-07-23 09:56:47 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > They can say whatever they want, but if they are bankrupt, what they say
> > doesn't matter much. My guess is that they would have to give their
> > patents to some legal entity that owns them so it is shielded from
> > bankrupcy.
>
> Huh? Bancruptcy doesn't simply invalidate licenses which successors then
> can ignore. By that logic a license to use the code, like the PG
> license, would be just as ineffectual
You are not thinking this through. It depends if the patent owner
retains some un-released/un-shared rights to the patent, e.g. patent can
only be used by others in GPL-licensed code.
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