On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 11:40:41AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 08:19:35AM -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
> > I'm fairly sure that I'm right. But my point isn't that we should "trust
> > Andres implicitly ™" (although that's obviously not a bad starting point
> > ;)). But rather, given that that is a reasonable assumption that such
> > agreements are legally possible, we can decide whether we want to take
> > advantage of such terms *assuming they are legally sound*. Then, if, and
> > only if, we decide that that's interesting from a policy POV, we can
> > verify those assumptions with lawyers.
>
> >
> > Given we're far from the first project dealing with this, and that
> > companies that have shown themselves to be reasonably trustworthy around
> > open source, like Red Hat, assuming that such agreements are sound seems
> > quite reasonable.
>
> Sun Microsystems seemed reasonably trustworthy too.
Are there patent grants from Sun that Oracle has attempted to renege on?
Are there court cases about that? Links?
Nico
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