Thanks All. Appreciate your responses. On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 9:33 PM Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Erik Wienhold <e...@ewie.name> writes: > > On 23/03/2023 04:34 CET Ian Lawrence Barwick <barw...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Also not a lawyer, but the full sentence is: > > >>> Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its > >>> documentation for any purpose, without fee, and without a written > agreement is > >>> hereby granted > > >> which in my non-lawyerly interpretation means anyone copying, modifying > and > >> distributing the documentation may do so without paying a fee. A > distributor > >> could charge what they like. > > > I know the fee clause from licenses such as Zero-Clause BSD, ISC > License, and > > GPLv3. They state "with or without fee" or "gratis or for a fee" > pertaining to > > the distribution. That's also how I interpret the fee clause in the > PostgreSQL > > license with the difference that it does not permit taking a fee. > > No, I agree with Ian: our license says that the Postgres project does not > require a fee. It does not say that someone redistributing the material > can't charge for their efforts. It would obviously be ridiculous to > expect someone to print a multi-thousand-page book and then give it away > for free. > > I do question the practicality and environmental cost of putting such > short-lived material on dead trees, though ... > > regards, tom lane >
