Disclaimer: IANAL. On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 2:53 PM Denis Cheremisov <denis.cheremi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> At my job we found these additional patents limitatations > https://github.com/golang/sync/blob/master/PATENTS > They makes us impossible to use errgroup (which is, to say, turned to have > pretty poor choice of WithContext signature, so our one is different), > Are you aware that the same patent grant also applies to Go itself? https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/PATENTS I don't understand why you think this patent grant would prevent you from using Go or golang.org/x/sync - in fact, I'd argue that you'd probably have more problems using it *without* it, as you might be infringing on patents unintentionally then. Really, the only situation I can imagine this being a problem, is if you intend to sue Google over violating your patents by implementing Go, while continuing to benefit from that implementation (note that both the grant and the exceptions are specific to the Go implementation). Which… Well, TBH, my sympathies for your case would be fairly limited. I guess the repository should be called "github.com/google/sync" after that. > It has been well established that Google is the copyright and trademark holder for Go. See also this fairly extensive post by Ian on this list: https://groups.google.com/g/golang-nuts/c/6dKNSN0M_kg/m/EUzcym2FBAAJ Anyway, our product's proprietary licence makes it impossible to use our > derived implementation. Is there a way to overcome this somehow? The > problem is my own implementation would be really close to this and thus > prone to a sue. > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "golang-nuts" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/b50fccd3-a026-4227-82ad-2e41e82cbea6n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/b50fccd3-a026-4227-82ad-2e41e82cbea6n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/CAEkBMfGTVktd6L10Ccf-9QUBqkbVQ13y7a%3DhzRH%3D0yQw%3D1ESpA%40mail.gmail.com.
