Re: Can we get patents?

On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 16:57:01 -0400,
Dave Cramer <pg(at)fastcrypt(dot)com> wrote:
>
> 3) His question was why? With a bsd license you can't stop anyone from
> using it and nobody
> else can patent it since by placing it in the project you are
> establishing prior art.

Nope. They can still be issued a patent and then you will have to come
up with some big bucks to get it overturned. The Patent Office isn't
going to go looking through the Postgres source when checking for prior
art. Even if you got the method published in a journal, the Patent Office
could still not see that the paper was the same technique as was being
used in the patent.