Re: How can we submit code patches that implement our (pending)patents?

On 2018-Jul-07, David Fetter wrote:

> If they have no plans to exercise any proprietary rights, our usual
> process where people submit things and agree to have us label them
> with the PGDG copyright and publish them under TPL would be the
> simplest way to accomplish it.

Eh, but if the submitting company has patents, would it not be dishonest
to publish as PGDG copyright & license with no attached patent grant?
Some other company deriving a proprietary fork from Postgres could later
be sued by the submitting company, because there is no legal standing
for them to use the patented code.

TBH I don't understand how can we dual-license the code in a manner that
protects those proprietary forks.  Can you (Andres) explain what is the
idea?

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