| From: | Nico Williams <nico(at)cryptonector(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Chris Travers <chris(dot)travers(at)adjust(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: How can we submit code patches that implement our (pending) patents? |
| Date: | 2018-07-27 03:06:23 |
| Message-ID: | 20180727030622.GQ5695@localhost |
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On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 04:42:24PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> It's barely possible that we could get current and new contributors to
> sign some kind of CLA containing anti-patent terms, but I don't think
> there's any hope of amending the distribution license.
Leaving aside whether you could change the license, or apply a new
license only to new contributions (that might be hard unless you're
making the history part of the product), ...
...if a CLA is too difficult too, then perhaps demand disclosure by
authors of any knowledge they might have of patents that their
contribution implements.
Nico
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