Content-Type: text/plain;
	charset=utf-8
Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 12.4 \(3445.104.11\))
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL License
From: Rob Sargent <robjsargent@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <11b26b3d-93d5-ac6b-7c06-aa959d91be5d@aklaver.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2019 12:23:51 -0600
Cc: Ashkar Dev <ashkardev@gmail.com>,
 Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>,
 "pgsql-generallists.postgresql.org" <pgsql-general@lists.postgresql.org>,
 user.postgresql@gmail.com,
 vikasmanya1@gmail.com,
 andreas@visena.com,
 hjp-pgsql@hjp.at
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Message-Id: <96C4950E-4157-4BD6-BE04-B4EBEF8F98A4@gmail.com>
References: <AAD870F8-7DBF-4D05-907F-5310E171449E@gmail.com>
 <VisenaEmail.29.99a51a3dc98dd447.16d41865b2c@tc7-visena>
 <CAHaowgU512Yiz57A8RLdYU2AVded0AeTX4Y9oZD5G5oviqLUkQ@mail.gmail.com>
 <bffd449e-f6bc-45b8-ade5-e1e3ce61d67e@gmail.com>
 <11b26b3d-93d5-ac6b-7c06-aa959d91be5d@aklaver.com>
To: Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>
Precedence: bulk


> On Sep 18, 2019, at 12:17 PM, Adrian Klaver =
<adrian.klaver@aklaver.com> wrote:
>=20
> On 9/18/19 11:06 AM, Rob Sargent wrote:
>> On 9/18/19 11:50 AM, Ashkar Dev wrote:
>>> Hi all thanks,
>>> I meant maybe I create a web app with PostgreSQL that work locally =
for example for a pharmacy that stores data by barcode while the DB was =
created by PostgreSQL how I can sell the Database for him, how to =
deliver the product to him can I sell the package that contains web app =
files with PostgreSQL software and the database code?
>>>=20
>> You can charge the pharmacist for your efforts: your web app =
(license), installing postgres and your schema (somewhere) and the data =
supporting your web-app, any documentation of your web-app and schema, =
any maintenance and support you care to specify. You can copy-right your =
app and schema and data.
>> You cannot (legitimately) charge the pharmacist for any part =
PostgresQL.
>=20
> Why not?
>=20
> Pretty sure that is what third parties are doing with their forks of =
Postgres.
>=20
I see your point, but aren=E2=80=99t they in essence charging for their =
efforts in making, managing their fork.  There are plenty of vendors, =
for a time I was one, who happily apply a schema to which ever database =
the client supplied (mssql, ora, pg in my case).