Re: License question

On Mon, Nov 25, 2024 at 10:12:09PM -0800, Christophe Pettus wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I think there is a fundamental misunderstanding here about how
> PostgreSQL's licensing works.
>
> You do not pay for the community version of PostgreSQL. The license
> specifically states it is available without a fee. It's free. No one
> collects money for the community version of PostgreSQL.
>
> There's no "enterprise" version of PostgreSQL that is provided by the
> community. It's just PostgreSQL.
>
> There are vendors which provide either commercial versions of
> PostgreSQL based on the community version, or which provide commercial
> support for PostgreSQL, but those are separate things from the
> PostgreSQL community version, and you would need to talk to the
> individual companies to find out what their arrangements are.

I have blogged about this confusion:

https://momjian.us/main/blogs/pgblog/2023.html#September_1_2023

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