Re: PostgreSQL License

On 9/18/19 8:26 PM, Ken Tanzer wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 5:55 PM Ron <ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com
> <mailto:ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com>> wrote:
>
> On 9/18/19 6:03 PM, Ken Tanzer wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 3:20 PM Ron <ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com
>> <mailto:ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com>> wrote:
>>
>> Charging for *installing* PostgreSQL is not the same as charging
>> for PostgreSQL.
>>
>> Bottom line: you charge for *services**you provide* not for
>> software that other people provide.
>>
>> That's just really not true.  There is nothing that prohibits you
>> from selling Postgresql.  I mean, it's not a great business model
>> because you can get it for free, but there's nothing that stops you
>> from doing it.
>
> Quoting Adrian Klaver in this thread from about eight hours ago: "You
> cannot (legitimately) charge the pharmacist for any part PostgresQL."
>
>
> Actually that's Rob Sargent you're quoting.  Adrian took issue with that
> statement, as do I.   While Google isn't finding me anything that says
> "Yes, you can sell Postgresql," here are a few points:
>
> * Point to anything in the license wording that says you can't charge
> money to distribute Postgresql.  You can't.
>
> * Even software licensed under the GPL, which is a considerably more
> restrictive license, can be sold.  The free software folks consider
> the right to sell as one of the freedoms associated with free
> software.  [1]
>
> * The Postgresql license page says it is "a liberal Open Source license,
> similar to the BSD or MIT licenses." [2] The MIT license itself
> explicitly states that it grants rights to "sell copies of the software."
>

How do you sell what you don't own?

> Cheers,
> Ken
>
> [1] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.en.html
> [2] https://www.postgresql.org/about/licence/
> [3] https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT
>

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