Re: License Issue

On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 11:13 -0400, May, Randy wrote:
> PostGresQL Admin,
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This is more of a hackers discussion. I am forwarding there.

-Hackers,

Do we have a history on this file?

Joshua D. Drake

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> I am part of an organization that is beginning to write commercial
> applications for various Portals (Liferay, etc.). We would like to be
> able to deploy PostGresQL as the lightweight database for the Portal
> to connect to. Our request for approval to our Legal Department has
> stalled due to the following language in one of the files:
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> File: src/backend/port/dynloader/readme.dlfcn.aix
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> Language: "Permission is granted to freely use, copy, modify, and
> redistribute this software, provided that no attempt is made to gain
> profit from it..."
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> We are not planning to modify PostGreSQL, nor charging for support
> services.
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> Given that we are building commercial applications, can I get
> confirmation that we allowed to use (in-house) and deploy (to our
> customers) PostGresQL to support our applications?
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> Thank you,
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> Randy May
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