Thread: Bundling pgsql to commercial product
Hi All,
We are thinking of bundling PostgreSQL as part of our commercial product for windows distribution. For linux distribution administrators would download it thru their package managers but for windows we would like to distribute the binaries within our product distribution for painless installation.
We have been really concern if we are able to do this from licensing point of view. As our product is under commercial license. I have read a few articles on this subject that are confirming that we can do this from legal point of view. Of course I would appreciate if you have any resources saying that this is bad idea.
My question is if you, community of PosgreSQL, know any commercial licensed product that is doing the same, shipping the PostreSQL binaries directly within their product bundle. I would appreciate any leads on this subject.
Martin
Polarion Software
On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 10:34:27AM +0200, Martin Popelak wrote: > Hi All, > > We are thinking of bundling PostgreSQL as part of our commercial product > for windows distribution. Have fun. The license makes it explicit and clear that you may ship PostgreSQL with or without modification in a proprietary product. Cheers, David. -- David Fetter <david@fetter.org> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david.fetter@gmail.com Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate
Hi
your use-case and solution is absolutely legal - PostgreSQL uses BSD licence and there is nothing disallowed.2015-05-21 10:34 GMT+02:00 Martin Popelak <martin.popelak@polarion.com>:
Hi All,We are thinking of bundling PostgreSQL as part of our commercial product for windows distribution. For linux distribution administrators would download it thru their package managers but for windows we would like to distribute the binaries within our product distribution for painless installation.We have been really concern if we are able to do this from licensing point of view. As our product is under commercial license. I have read a few articles on this subject that are confirming that we can do this from legal point of view. Of course I would appreciate if you have any resources saying that this is bad idea.My question is if you, community of PosgreSQL, know any commercial licensed product that is doing the same, shipping the PostreSQL binaries directly within their product bundle. I would appreciate any leads on this subject.MartinPolarion Software
On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 3:34 AM, Martin Popelak <martin.popelak@polarion.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > We are thinking of bundling PostgreSQL as part of our commercial product for > windows distribution. For linux distribution administrators would download > it thru their package managers but for windows we would like to distribute > the binaries within our product distribution for painless installation. > > We have been really concern if we are able to do this from licensing point > of view. As our product is under commercial license. I have read a few > articles on this subject that are confirming that we can do this from legal > point of view. Of course I would appreciate if you have any resources saying > that this is bad idea. > > My question is if you, community of PosgreSQL, know any commercial licensed > product that is doing the same, shipping the PostreSQL binaries directly > within their product bundle. I would appreciate any leads on this subject. > You're welcome to do that: http://www.postgresql.org/about/ """ Best of all, PostgreSQL's source code is available under a liberal open source license: the PostgreSQL License. This license gives you the freedom to use, modify and distribute PostgreSQL in any form you like, open or closed source. Any modifications, enhancements, or changes you make are yours to do with as you please. As such, PostgreSQL is not only a powerful database system capable of running the enterprise, it is a development platform upon which to develop in-house, web, or commercial software products that require a capable RDBMS. """ -- Jaime Casanova www.2ndQuadrant.com Professional PostgreSQL: Soporte 24x7 y capacitación