Re: PostgreSQL, LGPL and GPL.

Karen Hill 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?

Nothing ever becomes GPL automatically. You may wish to distribute your
own work under the GPL, but you don't have to.

> Like wise if you create a client
> that connects to that database, do they also become GPL?

Likewise.

> Does
> PostgreSQL in effect become GPL when using PostGIS because PostGIS
> accesses parts of PostgreSQL?

Likewise.

> 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?

Correct.

> If you provide the source on a CD and the (GPL/LGPL) license as a
> text file on that CD if you distribute, then are your obligations met
> under the GPL/LGPL?

That depends on the distribution methods of the non-source.

> What if those you distribute to lose the source
> code CD, can they then come after you X number of years later
> demanding the source?

No.

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Peter Eisentraut
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