| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>, Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine(at)hi-media(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Compression Library and Usages |
| Date: | 2010-01-12 00:54:00 |
| Message-ID: | 22349.1263257640@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> plus, it looks like that most of the patents have either expired, or
> are about to expire. lzo is used all over the place, including the
> linux kernel...i think the burden of proof rests with anyone claiming
> there are patent problems, not the other way around. lzo is also gpl
> so we can't use it :D. regarding fastlz and patents, who knows? I'm
> curious...does anyone know of a case where a high profile open source
> project was found to be violating a patent?
You have got that 100% backwards. We are not going to bet the survival
of the Postgres project on whether we can get away with violating
somebody's patent.
regards, tom lane
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