| From: | Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| 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 03:39:14 |
| Message-ID: | b42b73151001111939rb4165f1l27a66b43071327c1@mail.gmail.com |
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On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 7:54 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> 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.
I was only talking about the specific case of lzo, which is used
absolutely everywhere (not that this means anything but...).
merlin
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