On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 06:31:14AM -0700, Andres Freund wrote: > On July 23, 2018 6:25:42 AM PDT, Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> wrote: > >Notice this makes no mention of what happens to the patents if the > >company goes bankrupt. My guess is that in such a situation the > >company > >would have no control over who buys the patents or how they are used. > > It explicitly says irrevocable and successors. Why seems squarely > aimed at your concern. Bankruptcy wouldn't just invalidate that.
Until this has been upheld in court, it's just a vague idea. > Similarly icenses like Apache 2 grant a perpetual and irrevocable > patent grant for the use in the contribution. The "upheld in court" business applies here, too. I know it's tempting to look at formal-looking texts and infer that they operate something vaguely like computer code, but that is manifestly not the case. Best, David. -- David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate
