I believe the Debian advice on software patents is highly relevant: http://www.debian.org/legal/patent

S.


On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 12:39 PM, Peter Laursen <peter_laursen@webyog.com> wrote:

I occasionally found this in a Google search:
http://www.google.nl/patents/US8510270

What does this mean? Are anybody able to explain what the patent covers that has not been used in MySQL replication for 10+ years before the patent?  Does this mean any restrictions for utilizing binary log information in applications?



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