Re: Open source licenses

On 3/18/21 6:32 AM, DAVID Nicolas wrote:
> Dear PostgreSQL Team,
>
> We are a software editor that historically use PostgreSQL for one of our
> product.
>
> We currently use the version 9.6 since many years and now we would like
> to update to the last version 13.2.
>
> However, before that, we would like to check some points regarding the
> embedded components and their licenses.
>
> First, we install PostgreSQL with our installer using the Zip archive of
> binaries (for Windows) provided by EDB (available from your website).
>
> It seems that the EDB Zip archive embed PgAdmin and StackBuilder in
> addition to the PostgreSQL server.
>
> Do you know if some others modules are added by EDB ?

That is it:

~/postgresql-13.2-1-windows-x64-binaries/pgsql> ls
bin doc include lib pgAdmin 4 share StackBuilder symbols

>
> Then, it appears that the PostgreSQL server links some open source
> components that are not under the PostgreSQL license( ex: openssl,
> libcharset, ...).
>
> Could you please provide a list of the components included in the
> PostgreSQL server, with the OpenSource license type for each component ?
> Or even, if possible, with the license file for each component ?

That is going to depend on what the settings where when the source was
compiled. The question is what is your concern?

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