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From: Ron <ronljohnsonjr@gmail.com>
To: pgsql-generallists.postgresql.org <pgsql-general@lists.postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL License
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2019 20:35:21 -0500
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On 9/18/19 8:26 PM, Ken Tanzer wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 5:55 PM Ron <ronljohnsonjr@gmail.com 
> <mailto:ronljohnsonjr@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 9/18/19 6:03 PM, Ken Tanzer wrote:
>>
>>
>>     On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 3:20 PM Ron <ronljohnsonjr@gmail.com
>>     <mailto:ronljohnsonjr@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>         Charging for *installing* PostgreSQL is not the same as charging
>>         for PostgreSQL.
>>
>>         Bottom line: you charge for *services**you provide* not for
>>         software that other people provide.
>>
>>     That's just really not true.  There is nothing that prohibits you
>>     from selling Postgresql.  I mean, it's not a great business model
>>     because you can get it for free, but there's nothing that stops you
>>     from doing it.
>
>     Quoting Adrian Klaver in this thread from about eight hours ago: "You
>     cannot (legitimately) charge the pharmacist for any part PostgresQL."
>
>
> Actually that's Rob Sargent you're quoting.  Adrian took issue with that 
> statement, as do I.   While Google isn't finding me anything that says 
> "Yes, you can sell Postgresql," here are a few points:
>
>   * Point to anything in the license wording that says you can't charge
>     money to distribute Postgresql.  You can't.
>
>   * Even software licensed under the GPL, which is a considerably more
>     restrictive license, can be sold.  The free software folks consider
>     the right to sell as one of the freedoms associated with free
>     software.  [1]
>
>   * The Postgresql license page says it is "a liberal Open Source license,
>     similar to the BSD or MIT licenses." [2] The MIT license itself
>     explicitly states that it grants rights to "sell copies of the software."
>

How do you sell what you don't own?

> Cheers,
> Ken
>
> [1] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.en.html
> [2] https://www.postgresql.org/about/licence/
> [3] https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT
>

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