Re: Licensing

From: Mladen Gogala <gogala(dot)mladen(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Licensing
Date: 2021-08-18 19:13:51
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For a six-pack of Sam Adams Boston Lager or Molson Canadian Lager per
website, I hereby grant thee the right to use PostgreSQL with any
customer, to your heart's content. Please note that I don't accept
Budweiser or Miller products.

On 8/18/21 2:39 PM, Bryan Boone wrote:
> Hello Everyone.  I have a question about licensing with PostgeSQL.
>
> I work for a small company and we design websites for customers of
> ours.  I read the license that is listed here.
>
> https://www.postgresql.org/about/licence/
> <https://www.postgresql.org/about/licence/>
>
> However, I am still confused.
>
> The small company I work for develops websites and applications on AWS
> EC2 instances for our customers and we charge the customers a fee for
> hosting and for maintaining their websites.
>
> I am trying to figure out which dbase software I can use and if I need
> to buy licenses or not.
>
> We do not modify the PostgreSQL code and we do not redistribute the
> binaries.  So far we are just running on a single instance for each of
> our customers, but we are not utilizing anything like a cluster or
> high availability CDN, other than what AWS EC2 provides.  We always
> utilize Wordpress and Drupal for site front-end.
>
> Can someone tell me if I am able to use PostgreSQL for the small
> company I work for?  Is there a way to by a commercial license of
> PostgreSQL if we are required too?
>
> Thanks

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Mladen Gogala
Database Consultant
Tel: (347) 321-1217
https://dbwhisperer.wordpress.com

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