Thread: Shrinkwrap Windows Product, any issues? Anyone?
I am working on getting a shrink-wrapped version of PostgreSQL for Windows Currently it installs a customized version of Cygwin, PostgreSQL 7.2.3, cygipc, psqlodbc, and pgadminII I currently have the setup done. The target audience is not the enterprise, it is aimed at people using Access wanting to upgrade. I've looked long and hard and can't find any license issues. Does anyone know of any that I may have missed? As far as I can see, as long as I maintain GPL restrictions, I should be fine.
> -----Original Message----- > From: mlw [mailto:pgsql@mohawksoft.com] > Sent: 03 December 2002 06:17 > To: psqlodbc; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org > Subject: [HACKERS] Shrinkwrap Windows Product, any issues? Anyone? > > > I am working on getting a shrink-wrapped version of > PostgreSQL for Windows > > Currently it installs a customized version of Cygwin, > PostgreSQL 7.2.3, > cygipc, psqlodbc, and pgadminII > > I currently have the setup done. > > The target audience is not the enterprise, it is aimed at > people using > Access wanting to upgrade. > > I've looked long and hard and can't find any license issues. > Does anyone > know of any that I may have missed? As far as I can see, as long as I > maintain GPL restrictions, I should be fine. No problems with pgAdmin, though I do have to wonder how you've done the installer? Regards, Dave.
> I've looked long and hard and can't find any license issues. Does anyone > know of any that I may have missed? As far as I can see, as long as I > maintain GPL restrictions, I should be fine. PostgreSQL isn't licensed under the GPL, so it sounds to me as though you're confused about the licensing issues. -- (concatenate 'string "cbbrowne" "@cbbrowne.com") http://www3.sympatico.ca/cbbrowne/lsf.html "My mom said she learned how to swim. Someone took her out in the lake and threw her off the boat. That's how she learned how to swim. I said, 'Mom, they weren't trying to teach you how to swim.' " -- Paula Poundstone
> -----Original Message----- > From: cbbrowne@cbbrowne.com [mailto:cbbrowne@cbbrowne.com] > Sent: 03 December 2002 12:16 > To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org > Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Shrinkwrap Windows Product, any > issues? Anyone? > > > > I've looked long and hard and can't find any license issues. Does > > anyone > > know of any that I may have missed? As far as I can see, as > long as I > > maintain GPL restrictions, I should be fine. > > PostgreSQL isn't licensed under the GPL, so it sounds to me > as though you're > confused about the licensing issues. No, I don't think he is - Cygwin is GPL and psqlODBC is LGPL. Regards, Dave.
Dave Page wrote: > > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: mlw [mailto:pgsql@mohawksoft.com] >>Sent: 03 December 2002 06:17 >>To: psqlodbc; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org >>Subject: [HACKERS] Shrinkwrap Windows Product, any issues? Anyone? >> >> >>I am working on getting a shrink-wrapped version of >>PostgreSQL for Windows >> >>Currently it installs a customized version of Cygwin, >>PostgreSQL 7.2.3, >>cygipc, psqlodbc, and pgadminII >> >>I currently have the setup done. >> >>The target audience is not the enterprise, it is aimed at >>people using >>Access wanting to upgrade. >> >>I've looked long and hard and can't find any license issues. >>Does anyone >>know of any that I may have missed? As far as I can see, as long as I >>maintain GPL restrictions, I should be fine. >> >> > >No problems with pgAdmin, though I do have to wonder how you've done the >installer? > >Regards, Dave. > Brute force, of course! Seriously, I have hidden the cygwin environment and simply called it PostgreSQL. I am managing all he environment variables in my installer, and I am using Windows batch files to start bash which executes the PostgreSQL comands. I am using PGAdmin as the administration tool It really looks slick
> -----Original Message----- > From: mlw [mailto:pgsql@mohawksoft.com] > Sent: 03 December 2002 12:44 > To: Dave Page > Cc: psqlodbc; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org > Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Shrinkwrap Windows Product, any issues? Anyone? > > > Dave Page wrote: > > > > >No problems with pgAdmin, though I do have to wonder how you've done > >the installer? > > > >Regards, Dave. > > > > Brute force, of course! > > Seriously, I have hidden the cygwin environment and simply called it > PostgreSQL. I am managing all he environment variables in my > installer, > and I am using Windows batch files to start bash which executes the > PostgreSQL comands. > > I am using PGAdmin as the administration tool > > It really looks slick I was thinking more about how you've dealt with installing pgAdmin, or have you left it seperate? If you need any help with that side of it, just let me know... Sounds good though... Regards, Dave (aka dave@pgadmin.org).
cbbrowne@cbbrowne.com wrote: >>I've looked long and hard and can't find any license issues. Does anyone >>know of any that I may have missed? As far as I can see, as long as I >>maintain GPL restrictions, I should be fine. >> >> > >PostgreSQL isn't licensed under the GPL, so it sounds to me as though you're >confused about the licensing issues. > I'm not confused about the licensing issues. PostgreSQL is less restrictive than is GPL. Maybe I should have phrased it as the most restrictive license is GPL, so as long as I maintain GPL restrictions I should be fine. >-- >(concatenate 'string "cbbrowne" "@cbbrowne.com") >http://www3.sympatico.ca/cbbrowne/lsf.html >"My mom said she learned how to swim. Someone took her out in the lake >and threw her off the boat. That's how she learned how to swim. I >said, 'Mom, they weren't trying to teach you how to swim.' " >-- Paula Poundstone > > > >---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- >TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster > > >
> Brute force, of course! > > Seriously, I have hidden the cygwin environment and simply called it > PostgreSQL. I am managing all he environment variables in my installer, > and I am using Windows batch files to start bash which executes the > PostgreSQL comands. > > I am using PGAdmin as the administration tool > > It really looks slick We've done great things at our office, using the free NullSoft installer (WinAmp): http://www.winamp.com/nsdn/nsis/ Chris