| From: | Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> |
|---|---|
| To: | Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, "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 15:28:51 |
| Message-ID: | CA+OCxoxXjO3Whk9j-x=aXWduT7OVs2Jxe=kfkAMrLdy5ybc=4A@mail.gmail.com |
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On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 4:26 PM, Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
wrote:
> 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.
>
Correct. It's important folks realise that!
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