On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 7:54 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> 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.
I was only talking about the specific case of lzo, which is used
absolutely everywhere (not that this means anything but...).
merlin