Re: PostgreSQL License

On 9/18/19 11:23 AM, Rob Sargent wrote:
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>> On Sep 18, 2019, at 12:17 PM, Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com> wrote:
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>> 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
barcodewhile the DB was created by PostgreSQL how I can sell the Database for him, how to deliver the product to him
canI sell the package that contains web app files with PostgreSQL software and the database code?
 
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>>> 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
supportyou care to specify. You can copy-right your app and schema and data.
 
>>> You cannot (legitimately) charge the pharmacist for any part PostgresQL.
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>> Why not?
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>> Pretty sure that is what third parties are doing with their forks of Postgres.
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> I see your point, but aren’t they in essence charging for their efforts in making, managing their fork.  There are
plentyof 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).
 

In general that pretty much applies to a lot of software that has price. 
You don't actually own the software, just a paid license to use it. I'm 
not saying whether it is a good idea or not, just that it is possible.


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Adrian Klaver
adrian.klaver@aklaver.com