Re: ARC patent

From: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>
To: Andrew Sullivan <ajs(at)crankycanuck(dot)ca>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: ARC patent
Date: 2005-01-17 21:04:36
Message-ID: 20050117170411.C96603@ganymede.hub.org
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On Mon, 17 Jan 2005, Andrew Sullivan wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 02:37:44PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>>
>> We can modify the code slightly to hopefully avoid the patent. With the
>
> I guess what I'm very much worried about is that there is
> potentially-infringing code there, we know about it, and we may press
> ahead and release with it anyway. IBM would justifiably jump on us
> for that as a result.

I thought the patnt was only pending, not granted?

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