On January 11, 2005 08:34 am, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 08:13:01AM -0800, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > > Darcy Buskermolen wrote: > > >IBM has just announced they are waving all rights and providing access > > > to 500 patents. In the list of 500 there are several that relate RDBMS > > > and query optimizations, it may be worth a look. > > > > > >http://www.ibm.com/news/us/en/2005/01/patents.html > > > > Except in the event of a lawsuit. > > And derived closed-source products like SRA's or CMD's Postgres > offerings would not be able to include whatever is covered by the patents.
In that pg uses a BSD license, which is supported by OSO and which allows for: Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: * Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. * Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. I can't see binary modified distros like those offred by CP and SRA would be breaking this license. -- Darcy Buskermolen Wavefire Technologies Corp. ph: 250.717.0200 fx: 250.763.1759 http://www.wavefire.com ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
