Re: How can we submit code patches that implement our (pending) patents?

On 2018-07-26 09:51:54 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Chris Travers <chris(dot)travers(at)adjust(dot)com> writes:
> > What about adding an extra line to the license that indicates that the
> > copyright owners also give all patent licenses which are both in their
> > power to grant and also needed for exercise of the copyright license and
> > require that new code contributions use this license with the extra clause.
>
> There's been an awful lot of discussion in this thread that supposes that
> we can change the Postgres license. Let me just point out very clearly
> that no such thing is going to happen. There will be no changes, no
> additions, no alternate licenses, period. To change the license, we'd
> need the agreement of all current and past contributors, which is a
> completely impractical thing even if there were fairly wide consensus
> that a particular change is a good idea. Which there isn't.

That's obviously not going to happen. But there is the less crazy
alternative of dual licensing new contributions going forward, with a
licence that's TPL compatible.

Greetings,

Andres Freund