Re: Publishing Postgres Manual as a book

to follow up, does Postgres have any official legal contact person / email
address? i can't find any on the website.

S.

On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 8:46 AM Siddharth Jain <siddhsql(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> Thanks All. Appreciate your responses.
>
> On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 9:33 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
>> Erik Wienhold <ewie(at)ewie(dot)name> writes:
>> > On 23/03/2023 04:34 CET Ian Lawrence Barwick <barwick(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> >> Also not a lawyer, but the full sentence is:
>>
>> >>> Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its
>> >>> documentation for any purpose, without fee, and without a written
>> agreement is
>> >>> hereby granted
>>
>> >> which in my non-lawyerly interpretation means anyone copying,
>> modifying and
>> >> distributing the documentation may do so without paying a fee. A
>> distributor
>> >> could charge what they like.
>>
>> > I know the fee clause from licenses such as Zero-Clause BSD, ISC
>> License, and
>> > GPLv3. They state "with or without fee" or "gratis or for a fee"
>> pertaining to
>> > the distribution. That's also how I interpret the fee clause in the
>> PostgreSQL
>> > license with the difference that it does not permit taking a fee.
>>
>> No, I agree with Ian: our license says that the Postgres project does not
>> require a fee. It does not say that someone redistributing the material
>> can't charge for their efforts. It would obviously be ridiculous to
>> expect someone to print a multi-thousand-page book and then give it away
>> for free.
>>
>> I do question the practicality and environmental cost of putting such
>> short-lived material on dead trees, though ...
>>
>> regards, tom lane
>>
>