- Patents: Are you aware of any patents on the copy-and-patch approach or other advanced techniques you are using in the JIT, which may encumber the use of a JIT enabled CPython ?
IIRC, the trace trees technique or tracing JITs in general (I forgot which one) are patented by UC Irvine/ Andreas Gal and Michael Franz. But IIUC, they allow open source code to use it without getting sued. I am not a lawyer so please don’t take my word on this and actually consult a real expert.
The US Patent number is US 8,769,511 B2.