On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 08:13:01AM -0800, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > Darcy Buskermolen wrote: > > >IBM has just announced they are waving all rights and providing access to > >500 patents. In the list of 500 there are several that relate RDBMS and > >query optimizations, it may be worth a look. > > > >http://www.ibm.com/news/us/en/2005/01/patents.html > > Except in the event of a lawsuit.
And derived closed-source products like SRA's or CMD's Postgres offerings would not be able to include whatever is covered by the patents. -- Alvaro Herrera (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) "La rebeldía es la virtud original del hombre" (Arthur Schopenhauer) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org