Re: Patent issues and 8.1 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Patent issues and 8.1
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Msg-id 23342.1106876837@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Patent issues and 8.1  (Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>)
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Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
> On Thursday 27 January 2005 10:27, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Ordinarily I would agree with you, but what happens to someone who is
>> still running 8.0.* when IBM's patent gets issued?

> This is a straw-man, since nothing stops people from running 8.0.0
> even if the replacement come in 8.0.1

I don't think so.  It's not our responsibility if someone doesn't take
advantage of an available update.  But it is our responsibility if no
update is available.
        regards, tom lane


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