PATENTS

UNIVERSITY PATENT NOTICE:
  The technology is licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of
  Technology, Rutgers State University of New Jersey, and the Research
  Foundation of State University of New York at Stony Brook under
  United States of America Serial No. 11/760379 and to the patents
  and/or patent applications resulting from it.
PATENT MARKING NOTICE:
  This software is covered by US Patent No. 8,185,551.
  This software is covered by US Patent No. 8,489,638.
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  "THIS IMPLEMENTATION" means the copyrightable works distributed by
  Percona as part of the Fractal Tree project.
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  licensable by Percona, both currently or in the future; and that in
  the absence of this license would be infringed by THIS
  IMPLEMENTATION or by using or running THIS IMPLEMENTATION.
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