On 2006-10-20, Karen Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you make create a PostgreSQL database that uses PostGIS and you
distribute that database, than your database (tables, stored
procedures, views, etc) are GPL?
No, because those tables, stored procedures etc. are not
derivative works of the
Merijn de Weerd wrote:
[...]
If you distribute the PostgreSQL server software linked with
the PostGIS software, then you have to comply with the GPL
for both parts of that derivative work.
If you don't distribute any server software, you do not have
to worry about what the GPL requires.
Karen Hill writes:
If you make create a PostgreSQL database that uses PostGIS and you
distribute that database, than your database (tables, stored procedures,
views, etc) are GPL?
No.
Like wise if you create a client that connects to that database, do they
also become GPL?
No.
Does
John Hasler wrote:
Npgsql is LGPL. It means you must release the source of Npgsql when
distributing it, and if you modify Npgsql, but not have to release the
source under the (L)GPL of the software that calls Npgsql functions?
Pretty much, but you must provide your software in a form
I wrote:
Pretty much, but you must provide your software in a form that can be
relinked.
Karen Hill writes:
What does that mean?
What it says: read the LGPL. If you are dynamically linking you need do
nothing special as you are already providing your code in linkable form.
You also need not
