Re: PostgreSQL Licensing Question for pg_crypto and tablefunc extensions

Tom

Thanks for the quick reply. What you stated is what I was expecting. I've
searched high and low for the documentation that proves that point --
something I need to do to satisfy our legal team. Any thoughts on under
which rock that license language exists?

Best Regards,
Rumpi

On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 6:26 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> Rumpi Gravenstein <rgravens(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > I am new to PostgreSQL and am unclear on how licensing works for
> PostgreSQL
> > extensions. Are pg_crypto and tablefunc licensed with the PostgreSQL
> > community edition or do PostgreSQL extensions fall under a separate
> > license? I've looked for documentation on this and haven't found
> anything
> > on-point. Is there a link that describes how each extension is licensed?
>
> Everything in contrib/ is considered to be under the same license as the
> rest of the distribution. (A few of them have their own copyright text,
> but it's not substantially different in meaning from the main copyright
> notice. This is also true of bits of the core server, actually.)
>
> Extensions you get from elsewhere might have different copyrights though.
>
> regards, tom lane
>

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Rumpi Gravenstein