Re: Licensing

On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 04:07:52PM +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 2:34 AM Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 12:47:26PM -0700, Bryan Boone wrote:
> > > Ah okay thank you.  I think what was confusing me was the “without fee”.
> > >
> > > I wasn’t sure if that meant we could distribute it, but only if we did not charge a fee for it.  But I guess that
meansthat PostgreSQL will not charge a fee to us to distribute it.
 
> >
> > You are not the first person to be confused by this;  see this email
> > thread from 2003:
> 
> Maybe we need to come up with a more explaining paragraph and add it
> to https://www.postgresql.org/about/licence/ -- similar to how we
> explain that we're not going to change license... Like a "what does
> this mean" section or something..

Agreed, there is no problem in adding an explanation.

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