http://pgadmin.postgresql.org/pgadmin2.php?ContentID=2
"8. The pgAdmin Development Team may end the licence agreement for any reason,
without notice and without prejudice. In this case the licencee only retains
the right to use the software for personal or internal use. Within 10 days of
notification, the licencee agrees to end distribution of the software or to
pay $10,000 (ten thousand American dollars) for each copy sold."
IMHO, here is how the license can be understood :
pgAdmin II & III can be downloaded freely, source + binary, on pgAdmin web
site. It cannot be included on a distribution (like RedHat) without prior
written permission. We did not want to go too far in the license definition,
hence we (pgAdmin Team = mostly Dave and other developpers - i.e. people who
write code and work on pgAdmin everyday) can decide on a case by case basis.
This license was driven mostly by RedHat renaming PostgreSQL into RedHat
database, a few days after the development of pgAdmin II started.
Recently, RedHat did a lot of harm to KDE3 in their 8.0 edition. Did you find
any Kpackage in RedHat 8.0? In a few months, people may have to pay to
downlad the software they wrote on their own!
What happened to PostgreSQL and KDE3 will never happen to pgAdmin. pgAdmin is
owned by a community of free developpers. Like other free software
initiatives, they are gifts to Humanity.
Cheers,
Jean-Michel POURE
