Oracle indemnifies PostgreSQL on its patents - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Oracle indemnifies PostgreSQL on its patents
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Msg-id 200703301643.l2UGhtJ24984@momjian.us
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Responses Re: Oracle indemnifies PostgreSQL on its patents  (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>)
Re: Oracle indemnifies PostgreSQL on its patents  ("Luke Lonergan" <llonergan@greenplum.com>)
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Here is a surprising article about how Oracle has made open source
projects, like PostgreSQL, safe from claims of infringing Oracle
patents:
http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=A0F5F220-5940-470D-8564-CEA7E2D2B954. Oracle, like IBM, Sony, RedHat,
andNovell, is now a member of
 

Oracle, like IBM, Sony, RedHat, and Novell, is now a member of the Open
Invention Network, whose members all offer patent indemnification.

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