to follow up, does Postgres have any official legal contact person / email address? i can't find any on the website.
S. On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 8:46 AM Siddharth Jain <siddh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks All. Appreciate your responses. > > On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 9:33 PM Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > >> Erik Wienhold <e...@ewie.name> writes: >> > On 23/03/2023 04:34 CET Ian Lawrence Barwick <barw...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Also not a lawyer, but the full sentence is: >> >> >>> Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its >> >>> documentation for any purpose, without fee, and without a written >> agreement is >> >>> hereby granted >> >> >> which in my non-lawyerly interpretation means anyone copying, >> modifying and >> >> distributing the documentation may do so without paying a fee. A >> distributor >> >> could charge what they like. >> >> > I know the fee clause from licenses such as Zero-Clause BSD, ISC >> License, and >> > GPLv3. They state "with or without fee" or "gratis or for a fee" >> pertaining to >> > the distribution. That's also how I interpret the fee clause in the >> PostgreSQL >> > license with the difference that it does not permit taking a fee. >> >> No, I agree with Ian: our license says that the Postgres project does not >> require a fee. It does not say that someone redistributing the material >> can't charge for their efforts. It would obviously be ridiculous to >> expect someone to print a multi-thousand-page book and then give it away >> for free. >> >> I do question the practicality and environmental cost of putting such >> short-lived material on dead trees, though ... >> >> regards, tom lane >> >
