[Developers] MQL license?

[Roland Bouman]

Hi!

On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 4:16 PM, Spencer Kelly<spencerkelly86 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>  Danny Hillis was granted a patent (#7,502,770) on the
>> entire concept of Freebase, so it's reasonable to assume that there
>> are other patents lurking.
>
> you'd think there would be some dissonance about filing a patent on a system
> that depends on community goodwill.
> i didn't know about this. what an insult.

Personally, I don't want to judge it like that. It's possible that
this patent is just a matter of defense - if another company files the
patent, they can sue you for practicing your own ideas.

So, in short - I'm neutral w/re to the existence of a patent. I just
would like to know whether I'm free to create a query engine that
speaks MQL.

Any information that sheds light on this matter would still be greatly
appreciated.

kind regards,

Roland
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