Hi everyone, This is Prof. Bayer's response to the question "is it alright to use UB-Tree's in Open Source projects?".
It's a "No, but we can discuss a licensing model" type answer. Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -------- Original Message -------- Subject: AW: More UB-Tree patent information Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 15:26:05 +0200 From: "Prof. Rudolf Bayer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Justin Clift" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dear Justin, I am personally holder of the patents. concerning your question: > Specifically wondering if it's alright to use UB-Tree's in > Open Source projects. the answer is NO, unless there is a patent agreement with me. Please let me know, what specifically the interests and business models are, then we could discuss a licensing model in line with the already existing license agreements, best regards, R. Bayer ************************************************************************* Prof. Rudolf Bayer, Ph.D. Institut fuer Informatik, Technische Universitaet Muenchen Orleansstr. 34, D-81667 Muenchen, Germany tel: ++49-89-48095 171 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] fax: ++49-89-48095 170 http://www3.informatik.tu-muenchen.de > -----Ursprungliche Nachricht----- > Von: Justin Clift [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Gesendet: Dienstag, 9. April 2002 23:04 > An: Professor Rudolf Bayer > Cc: PostgreSQL General Mailing List > Betreff: More UB-Tree patent information > > > Hi Prof. Bayer, > > Haven't heard anything back from you regarding the patents on > UB-Tree's. Specifically wondering if it's alright to use UB-Tree's in > Open Source projects. > > On a related topic, in your paper "The Universal B-Tree for > multidimensional Indexing" > (http://mistral.in.tum.de/results/publications/TUM-I9637.pdf) you > mention a German "Patent Pending" number of "196 35 429.3", is this the > one which was approved in Europe? > > In the paper "Bulk Loading a Data Warehouse built upon a UB-Tree" > (http://mistral.in.tum.de/results/publications/FKM+00.pdf) it mentions > the Japanese Patent filed on 22nd May 2000, Application Number > 2000-149648. Is this the Japanese patent for UB-Trees which hasn't yet > been approved? > > :) > > Regards and best wishes, > > Justin Clift > > -- > "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those > who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the > first group; there was less competition there." > - Indira Gandhi > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
