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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