On Mon, 2010-01-11 at 19:54 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.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.
+1
Joshua D. Drake
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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