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Re: IBM releases 500 patents

Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>

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From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>
To: Elein Mustain <elein@tulip.norcov.com>
Cc: Darcy Buskermolen <darcy@wavefire.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2005-01-14T16:28:52Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 10:33:44 -0800,
  Elein Mustain <elein@tulip.norcov.com> wrote:
> They probaly released the informix database patents.
> This is pertinent to us as several of them were interesting
> implementations of things like the function manager.

From what I read of this, the way they released the patents isn't completely
compatible with BSD licenses.