Re: Solr Patent

2013-09-15 Thread Benson Margulies
I am not a lawyer. The Apache Software Foundation cannot 'protect Solr developers.' Patent infringement is a claim made against someone who derived economic benefit from an invention, not someone who writes code. The patent clause in the Apache License requires people who contribute code to

Re: Solr Patent

2013-09-14 Thread Michael Sokolov
On 9/13/2013 9:14 PM, Zaizen Ushio wrote: Hello I have a question about patent. I believe Apache license is protecting Solr developers from patent issue in Solr community. But is there any case that Solr developer or Solr users are alleged by outside of Solr Community? Is there any cases

Re: Solr Patent

2013-09-14 Thread Shashi Kant
You can ask on this site http://patents.stackexchange.com/ On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Michael Sokolov msoko...@safaribooksonline.com wrote: On 9/13/2013 9:14 PM, Zaizen Ushio wrote: Hello I have a question about patent. I believe Apache license is protecting Solr developers from

Solr Patent

2013-09-13 Thread Zaizen Ushio
Hello I have a question about patent. I believe Apache license is protecting Solr developers from patent issue in Solr community. But is there any case that Solr developer or Solr users are alleged by outside of Solr Community? Is there any cases somebody experienced? Any advice is