Re: [ADMIN] License for PostgreSQL for commercial purpose

2004-03-29 Thread Robert Treat
On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 02:10, Peter Galbavy wrote: Tom Lane wrote: Neither of those readings is correct. The correct interpretation is that the copyright holders (us and UCB, in the case of Postgres) aren't charging any fee. This does not prohibit others from charging for their own

Re: [ADMIN] License for PostgreSQL for commercial purpose

2004-03-28 Thread Peter Galbavy
Eric Yum wrote: http://www.postgresql.org/licence.html You should get your local legal professional to give an opinion if you intend to redistribute. One specific area of contention amongst BSD license people is the phrase: ... for any purpose, without fee, and ... Some opine that this means

Re: [ADMIN] License for PostgreSQL for commercial purpose

2004-03-28 Thread Tom Lane
Peter Galbavy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You should get your local legal professional to give an opinion if you intend to redistribute. One specific area of contention amongst BSD license people is the phrase: ... for any purpose, without fee, and ... Some opine that this means the software in

Re: [ADMIN] License for PostgreSQL for commercial purpose

2004-03-28 Thread Peter Galbavy
Tom Lane wrote: Neither of those readings is correct. The correct interpretation is that the copyright holders (us and UCB, in the case of Postgres) aren't charging any fee. This does not prohibit others from charging for their own efforts. As I said in my original reply, intention has

Re: [ADMIN] License for PostgreSQL for commercial purpose

2004-03-26 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 06:04:10PM -0500, Chris Browne wrote: The FSF web site then compares various variations on BSD licenses, considering that there are some that they deem to be free (in their terms), and that there are others that they deem to _NOT_ be free (again in their terms). To

Re: [ADMIN] License for PostgreSQL for commercial purpose

2004-03-26 Thread Radu-Adrian Popescu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Doug Quale wrote: | Chris Browne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | |The FSF characterizes the PostgreSQL license as being an X11 style |license. They felt a need to distinguish between different |variations of licenses that are called 'BSD licenses.' |

Re: [ADMIN] License for PostgreSQL for commercial purpose

2004-03-26 Thread scott.marlowe
On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Radu-Adrian Popescu wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Doug Quale wrote: | Chris Browne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | |The FSF characterizes the PostgreSQL license as being an X11 style |license. They felt a need to distinguish between different

Re: [ADMIN] License for PostgreSQL for commercial purpose

2004-03-26 Thread Doug Quale
Radu-Adrian Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Doug Quale wrote: | The Postgres license is a free software license that is GPL | compatible. Where GPL compatible means (possibly among other things) that I can get a BSD-licensed Postgresql and turn it into a GPL-licensed MyPostgresql ?

Re: [ADMIN] License for PostgreSQL for commercial purpose

2004-03-26 Thread listas
Hi, | The Postgres license is a free software license that is GPL | compatible. Where GPL compatible means (possibly among other things) that I can get a BSD-licensed Postgresql and turn it into a GPL-licensed MyPostgresql ? No, it means you can distribute the two together like on

[ADMIN] License for PostgreSQL for commercial purpose

2004-03-25 Thread Eric Yum
Dear Sir I am a developer of one commercial organization. We are going to develop some applications with PostgreSQL 7.3.3. I learn from some websites that it cost no charge for developing software with PostgreSQL in commercial environment. However, I saw the PostgreSQL is under two type

Re: [ADMIN] License for PostgreSQL for commercial purpose

2004-03-25 Thread Goulet, Dick
-Original Message-From: Eric Yum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 1:30 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [ADMIN] License for PostgreSQL for commercial purpose Dear Sir I am a developer of one commercial organization. We are going to develop

Re: [ADMIN] License for PostgreSQL for commercial purpose

2004-03-25 Thread scott.marlowe
On Thu, 25 Mar 2004, Eric Yum wrote: Dear Sir I am a developer of one commercial organization. We are going to develop some applications with PostgreSQL 7.3.3. I learn from some websites that it cost no charge for developing software with PostgreSQL in commercial environment. However, I

Re: [ADMIN] License for PostgreSQL for commercial purpose

2004-03-25 Thread Geoffrey
Eric Yum wrote: Dear Sir I am a developer of one commercial organization. We are going to develop some applications with PostgreSQL 7.3.3. I learn from some websites that it cost no charge for developing software with PostgreSQL in commercial environment. However, I saw the PostgreSQL is under