On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 04:47:35AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Therefore, I caution people from viewing the Greenplum source code as > you might see patented ideas that could be later implemented in > Postgres, opening Postgres up to increased patent violation problems. I > am also concerned about existing community members who work for > Pivotal/Greenplum and therefore are required to view the patented source > code. The license issue might eventually be improved by > Pivotal/Greenplum, but, for now, I think caution is necessary. > > Of course, never mention known-patented ideas in any community forum, > including this email list.
I just found out that Citus Data has patent applications pending, so viewing Citus Data source code has the same problems as Greenplum. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + As you are, so once was I. As I am, so you will be. + + Roman grave inscription + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
