Re: How can we submit code patches that implement our (pending) patents?

I'm not sure how much practical protection/benefit that'd offer unless it came with a retaliation clause, though, and how it'd differ from an unrestricted grant of rights for everyone. I mentioned that earlier. If you can take a few snippets of PostgreSQL code and add them to your product to inherit the patent grant, then in practice the patent grant is universal, not specific to PostgreSQL and derivatives. But if you start requiring "substantial" derivatives, etc, it gets messy and complicated.

I'm not sure how grants with retaliation clauses would be received by others here. I lack the expertise to have much of an opinion myself. Is that what you propose?

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