Re: PostgreSQL License

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.

On 9/18/19 5:11 PM, Ashkar Dev wrote:
> Thanks,
> but is it legal to charge for installing PostgreSQL?
> as you said:
>
> You cannot (legitimately) charge the pharmacist for any part PostgresQL
>
> should I in the contract write that the price does not include installing
> PostgreSQL, preparing it or PostgreSQL itself?
>  or just from my side while I am going to set price I have to dont count
> installing the PostgreSQL or PostgreSQL itself as a part of that price?
>
> On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 9:06 PM Rob Sargent <robjsargent(at)gmail(dot)com
> <mailto:robjsargent(at)gmail(dot)com>> wrote:
>
>
> On 9/18/19 11:50 AM, Ashkar Dev wrote:
> > Hi all thanks,
> > I meant maybe I create a web app with PostgreSQL that work locally for
> > example for a pharmacy that stores data by barcode while the DB was
> > created by PostgreSQL how I can sell the Database for him, how to
> > deliver the product to him can I sell the package that contains web
> > app files with PostgreSQL software and the database code?
> >
> You can charge the pharmacist for your efforts: your web app (license),
> installing postgres and your schema (somewhere) and the data supporting
> your web-app, any documentation of your web-app and schema, any
> maintenance and support you care to specify. You can copy-right your app
> and schema and data.
>
> You cannot (legitimately) charge the pharmacist for any part PostgresQL.
>

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